Events from the year 1874 in art. Events February–March – A memorial exhibition of drawings and watercolors by Viktor Hartmann is held at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and inspires his friend Modest Mussorgsky to compose the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. April 15–May 15 – First exhibition by the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs is held in a private studio (belonging to Nadar) outside the official Paris Salon; on April 25, Louis Leroy reviewing the exhibition in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari under the heading "L'Exposition des impressionistes", coins the term "Impressionism" to describe the movement, with particular reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872), first exhibited here and in May sold to the businessman and collector Ernest Hoschedé. Renoir exhibits six works, including La Loge. The only female exhibitor is Berthe Morisot. Summer – Monet visits Amsterdam. August 22 – English illustrator Helen Paterson marries Irish poet and editor William Allingham and becomes a watercolourist under her married name. c. December 19 – Monet begins painting his Snow at Argenteuil series. December 22 – Berthe Morisot marries Eugène, brother of Édouard Manet, at Passy. Goya's Black Paintings are transferred to canvas. Works April 26 – Confederate Obelisk (Atlanta) Peter Nicolai Arbo Dagr Self-portrait Thomas Jones Barker – Balaklava – One of the Six Hundred Caroline Shawk Brooks – Dreaming Iolanthe (butter sculpture; first version) Ford Madox Brown – Cromwell on his Farm Edward Burne-Jones – The Beguiling of Merlin Louis Buvelot – Macedon Ranges Edgar Degas – The Dance Class Pere Borrell del Caso – Escaping Criticism Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand Henri Fantin-Latour – Still Life with Pansies (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Luke Fildes – Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward Emmanuel Frémiet – Joan of Arc (formerly in the Place des Pyramides, Paris) Walter Greaves – Old Battersea Bridge Armand Guillaumin – La Seine (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Winslow Homer – Farmer with a Pitch Fork Vilhelm Kyhn – Sildig Sommeraften ved Himmelbjærget ("Late Summer Evening near Himmelbjerget") Édouard Manet Boating (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Argenteuil Claude Monet Painting in his Studio Antonin Mercié – Gloria Victis (sculpture) Claude Monet – The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil Albert Joseph Moore – Shells Thomas Moran – Chasm of the Colorado Berthe Morisot – The Butterfly Hunt John Pettie – Jacobites Camille Pissarro –