Each year I celebrate the lives and works of artists with anniversaries. This coming year there’s a host of major artists, from Jan Steen from the Dutch Golden Age to Impressionists Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet. Here’s the crowded calendar for the coming twelve months.

22 January 1926: Carlos Schwabe, a Swiss Symbolist, died. He had been born in 1866, and moved to Paris, where he took part in the Salon de la Rose + Croix, and received a gold medal for his work shown at the 1900 Exposition Universelle.

18 March 1926: Jean-Eugène Buland, a French Naturalist, died. He had been born in 1852, and trained and worked in Paris, where his paintings were well received at the Salon.

1 April 1926: Charles Angrand, a French Neo-Impressionist, died. He had been born in 1854, and initially painted in Impressionist style. A friend of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, he adopted Pointillism, although with a more muted palette.

6 April 1826: Gustave Moreau, a prolific French Symbolist, was born. He completed many major narrative paintings before his death in 1898, most based on classical myths.

8 April 1926: John Ferguson Weir, an American painter and sculptor, died. He had been born in 1841, and trained at the National Academy in New York. After a period studying in Paris, he established and led the School of Fine Arts at Yale University.

4 May 1826: Frederic Edwin Church, an American landscape painter, was born. He travelled extensively, and became a central figure in the Hudson River School, famous for his breathtakingly detailed views of volcanoes in Colombia and Ecuador. He died in 1900.

14 June 1926: Mary Cassatt, an American painter and printmaker among the French Impressionists, died. She had been born in 1844 and moved to Paris in 1866, where she completed her training, then made friends with Edgar Degas, who taught her to make etchings. She exhibited in the Impressionist Exhibitions.

23 July 1926: Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, a Russian painter of myth, legend and folklore, died. He had been born in 1848, and trained in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he was a friend of Ilya Repin. He painted in Paris, Moscow and Kyiv.

3 September 1826: Alberto Pasini, an Italian landscape painter specialising in ‘oriental’ views, was born. He painted in Turkey, Egypt and Persia, and died in 1899.

28 September 1926: Helen Allingham, an English watercolour painter and illustrator, died. She had been born in 1848, and trained in London. Her landscapes concentrate on quaint rural villages in the countryside around London.

4 November 1926: Albin Egger-Lienz, an Austrian painter, died. He had been born in 1868, trained and worked in Munich. His early work is Naturalist, but from the First World War onwards his style became more modern and his themes developed from the horrors of war.

5 December 1926: Claude Monet, one of the major French Impressionist painters, died. He had been born in 1840, and had the longest career as an Impressionist from about 1870 until his eyesight failed in about 1920.

13 December 1926: Théo van Rysselberghe, a prolific Belgian Neo-Impressionist painter, died. He had been born in 1862, and painted in Impressionist style until he started to experiment with Pointillism in 1887. He abandoned that in 1910, when he was living in the Midi.

At some time, most probably in 1626: Jan Steen, a Dutch genre painter of the Golden Age, was born. He died in 1679.

I hope that you’ll join me in celebrating the lives and works of these painters in the coming year, and wish you a happy and successful New Year.