1859 in art
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Events from the year 1859 in art.
Events
- March 22 â Scottish National Gallery opens to the public in Edinburgh in neoclassical premises designed by W. H. Playfair.[1][2]
- April 26 â William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden. Edward Burne-Jones presents them with a self-painted wardrobe.[3]
- May 2 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1859 opens in London.
- The Neue Pinakothek is completed in Munich, intended to be the first museum in Europe for the exhibition of contemporary painting.[4]
- Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors.
- While attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, in Paris, Pissarro becomes friends with a number of younger artists also choosing to paint in a more realistic style, including Monet, Guillaumin and Cézanne.
- Photography is admitted to the Paris Salon for the first time.[5]
- The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army.
Works
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- Peter Nicolai Arbo â Saint Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad
- Thomas Jones Barker â The Relief of Lucknow
- Albert Bierstadt â some dates approximate
- Bernese Alps
- Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies
- The Wolf River, Kansas
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon â French Peasants Finding Their Stolen Child
- Frederic E. Church â The Heart of the Andes
- Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg â Monument to Nicholas I (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse
- Thomas Couture â Daydreams
- Eugène Delacroix â Ovid among the Scythians (first version)
- Robert S. Duncanson â Landscape with Rainbow
- William Dyce â Beatrice (Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine)
- William Maw Egley â Omnibus Life in London
- Henri Fantin-Latour â Self-portrait
- Francesco Hayez â The Kiss, an expression of Italian Romanticism
- George Elgar Hicks â Dividend Day at the Bank of England
- James Clarke Hook
- Arthur Hughes â The Long Engagement
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg â Gallic Victim (marble)
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre â King Candaules
- Ãdouard Manet â The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
- John Everett Millais â The Vale of Rest
- Jean-François Millet â The Angelus (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Elisabet Ney â Arthur Schopenhauer (sculpture)
- Henry Nelson O'Neil â Home Again
- David Roberts â Ruins of the Roman Forum
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â Bocca Baciata, the first of his portraits of single female figures (Fanny Cornforth)
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope â Thoughts of the Past
- James McNeill Whistler â Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â Portrait of Prince Albert
Births
- January 28 â Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (died 1948)
- May 25 â William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait, and genre painter (died 1944)
- June 16 â Paja JovanoviÄ, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters, with ÄorÄe KrstiÄ and UroÅ¡ PrediÄ (died 1957)
- June 17 â Walter Osborne, Irish Impressionist painter (died 1903)
- August 22 â John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (died 1932)
- October 17 â Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter (died 1935)
- November 10 â Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (died 1923)
- November 27 â William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (died 1886)
- December 2 â Georges-Pierre Seurat, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1891)
- December 25 â Anna Palm de Rosa, Swedish-born painter (died 1924)
- December 30 â Henrietta Rae, English painter (died 1928)
Deaths
- February 8 â William Edward West, American portrait painter (born 1788)[6]
- March 3 â Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1778)
- March 24 â James Stark, English painter (born 1794)
- April 22 â Edward Villiers Rippingille, English painter (born c.1790)
- May 5 â Charles Robert Leslie, English genre works painter (born 1794)
- May 8 â José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1781)
- June 7 â David Cox, English landscape painter (born 1783)[7]
- June 20 â Hans Michelsen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1789)
- August 3 â Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (born 1801)
- August 27 â Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (born 1788)
- October 21 â William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (born 1774)[8]
- November 13 - Ernesta Legnani Bisi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1788)
- November 17 â James Ward, English animal painter and engraver (born 1769)
- December 17 â Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (born 1794)
- date unknown â John Bacon, English sculptor (born 1777)