1853 in art
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Events from the year 1853 in art.
Events
- 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London
- 15 May – Salon of 1853 opens in Paris
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.
Works
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sorauren
- John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
- Théodore Chassériau – Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
- Walter Deverell
- The Grey Parrot (c. 1852–53)
- A Pet
- William Powell Frith – The Sleeping Model
- Francis Grant
- Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience[1]
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
- Princesse Albert de Broglie
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
- John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath[2] and The Plains of Heaven
- John Everett Millais
- Gustave Moreau – The Song of Songs
- Clarkson Stanfield – The Last of the Crew[4]
- Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
- Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born[5]
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
- Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
- Jules-Claude Ziegler – The Peace of Amiens
Births
- February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)[6]
- March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)[7]
- March 30
- Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)[8]
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)[9]
- May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
- May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
- September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
- October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927)[10]
- December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)[11]
Deaths
- February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)[12]
- April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)[13]
- June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
- July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
- July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
- November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)[14]
- December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
- date unknown
- Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
- Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)
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