1853 in art
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Events from the year 1853 in art.
Events
- 2 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London
- 15 May â 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 â Wellington at Sorauren
- John Bell â A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
- Théodore Chassériau â Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz â Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
- Walter Deverell
- The Grey Parrot (c. 1852â53)
- A Pet
- William Powell Frith â The Sleeping Model
- Francis Grant
- Holman Hunt â 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 â Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
- John Martin â completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath[2] and The Plains of Heaven
- John Everett Millais
- Gustave Moreau â The Song of Songs
- Clarkson Stanfield â The Last of the Crew[4]
- Christian Friedrich Tieck â Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in ToruÅ (posthumous casting)
- Henry Wallis â The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born[5]
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â Florinda
- Albert Wolff â sculptures in Berlin
- Jules-Claude Ziegler â The Peace of Amiens
Births
- February 26 â Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)[6]
- March 14 â 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 â Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
- May 28 â Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
- September 5 â Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
- October 30 â Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927)[10]
- December 9 â Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)[11]
Deaths
- February 6 â August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)[12]
- April 8 â Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)[13]
- June 12 â Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
- July 15 â Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
- July 22 â Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
- November 28 â Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)[14]
- December 28 â Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
- date unknown
- PaweÅ MaliÅski, 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)