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1871
 
    
Whistler paints his mother and calls the picture Arrangement in Grey and Black       
1871
 
   
Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames      
Whistler Nocturne: Blue and Gold (detail)
Tate Britain

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1878
 
    
English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces       
1879
 
    
English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs       
1881
 
    
The Aesthetic Movement and 'art for art's sake', attitudes personified above all by Whistler and Wilde, are widely mocked and satirized in Britain       
Double character teapot, Worcester, 1882
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1882
 
    
Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution       
1885
 
   
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career      
1887
 
    
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs       
1893
 
     
An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus        
Eros Alfred Gilbert
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1895
 
    
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London