1860 in art

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1860 in art

Events from the year 1860 in art.

Events

February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.^[1]
May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.^[2]
December 30 – Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.^[3]

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau
Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe

Works

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women^[4]
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons^[5]
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Repose
Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)
William Dyce
- The Man of Sorrows
- Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
William Powell Frith – Claude Duval
Francesco Hayez
- Massimo d'Azeglio
- Self-portrait at the age of 69
Hiroshige II – Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū
William Holman Hunt – The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
Daniel Huntington – Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire
Friedrich Kaulbach – Elisabet Ney
Édouard Manet
- Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
John Everett Millais – The Black Brunswicker
Clark Mills – Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C.
John Phillip – The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal
William Bell Scott – Ailsa Craig
Rebecca Solomon – Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet
Simeon Solomon – The Mother of Moses
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Robin of Modern Times
G. F. Watts – Alice Prinsep
Canova Lions (bronze castings)

Births

January 1
- John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (died 1939)
- Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (died 1938)
January 29 – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (died 1941)
February 21 – Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (died 1952)^[6]
February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)^[7]
May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)^[8]
June 1 – Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator (died 1920)
June 18
- George Frampton, English sculptor (died 1928)
- Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)
June 25 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (died 1942)
August 5 – Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter (died 1942)
August 18 – Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1940)
September 7 – Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson), American folk artist (died 1961)
September 16 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, English portrait painter (died 1927)
September 30 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (died 1949)
October 4 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (died 1908)
date unknown – Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)

Deaths

January 20 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)
February 16 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)
March 28 – Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (born 1774)
April 6 – Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)^[9]
April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)^[10]
June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779)^[11]
June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)^[12]
August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)
September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)
October 2 – Louis Hersent, French painter (born 1777)
October 3
- Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (born 1780)
- Rembrandt Peale, American artist (born 1778)
date unknown
- Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (born 1801)
- Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (born 1784)^[13]

References

↑ "Artists Rifles Association". 2006–2008. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
↑ Rossetti, William Michael; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Hartley, Harold (May 1903). "Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 1 (3). The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd.: 273–295. ISSN 0951-0788. JSTOR 855671.
↑ "About the Museum". Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
↑ "A Bargain Brabant Women | the Knohl Collection". Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
↑ The four seasons : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter | Petit Palais
↑ Dr. Paul Joyner (2001). "John, Sir William Goscombe (1860–1952), sculptor and medallist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
↑ Forrer, L. (1907). "Lalique, René". Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. III. London: Spink & Son Ltd. pp. 275–278.
↑ Wendy Baron; Richard, eds. (1992). Sickert: Paintings. Royal Academy of Arts. p. 33.
↑ Acte de décès no 790, 7 avril 1860, Paris 6e, Archives de Paris (in French)
↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and A. M. Friedenberg (1901–1906). "Guttmann, Jakob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
↑ John Denison Champlin, Jr. (1927). Cyclopedia Of Painters and Paintings. p. 37.
↑ H. P. Clive; Professor of French Peter Clive (2001). Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-19-816672-6.
↑ Alfred Karl Morgenroth; Peter Raabe (1942). Von deutscher Tonkunst: Festschrift zu Peter Raabes 70. Geburtstag. In Gemeinschaft mit zweiundzwanzig Fachgenossen. Peters. p. 126.

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[1] "Artists Rifles Association". 2006–2008. Retrieved 2013-08-14.

[2] Rossetti, William Michael; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Hartley, Harold (May 1903). "Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 1 (3). The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd.: 273–295. ISSN 0951-0788. JSTOR 855671.

[3] "About the Museum". Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 11 November 2024.

[4] "A Bargain Brabant Women | the Knohl Collection". Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-07-13.

[5] The four seasons : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter | Petit Palais

[6] Dr. Paul Joyner (2001). "John, Sir William Goscombe (1860–1952), sculptor and medallist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[7] Forrer, L. (1907). "Lalique, René". Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. III. London: Spink & Son Ltd. pp. 275–278.

[8] Wendy Baron; Richard, eds. (1992). Sickert: Paintings. Royal Academy of Arts. p. 33.

[9] Acte de décès no 790, 7 avril 1860, Paris 6e, Archives de Paris (in French)

[10] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and A. M. Friedenberg (1901–1906). "Guttmann, Jakob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

[11] John Denison Champlin, Jr. (1927). Cyclopedia Of Painters and Paintings. p. 37.

[12] H. P. Clive; Professor of French Peter Clive (2001). Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-19-816672-6.

[13] Alfred Karl Morgenroth; Peter Raabe (1942). Von deutscher Tonkunst: Festschrift zu Peter Raabes 70. Geburtstag. In Gemeinschaft mit zweiundzwanzig Fachgenossen. Peters. p. 126.

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