1860 in art
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Events from the year 1860 in art.
Events
- February 27 â Matthew Brady takes the first of his photographs of Abraham Lincoln.[1]
- February 28 â The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.[2]
- May 23 â Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.[3]
- December 30 â Towarzystwo ZachÄty do Sztuk PiÄknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
- Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.[4]
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 â A Bargain: Brabant Women[5]
- Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry â Charlotte Corday
- Edward Burne-Jones â Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
- Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons[6]
- William Dyce
- Francesco Hayez
- Hiroshige II â Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in KishÅ«
- William Holman Hunt â The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
- Daniel Huntington â Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire
- Ãdouard Manet
- Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- John Everett Millais â The Black Brunswicker
- Clark Mills â Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C.
- John Phillip â The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal
- William Bell Scott â Ailsa Craig
- Rebecca Solomon â Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet
- Simeon Solomon â The Mother of Moses
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope â Robin of Modern Times
- G. F. Watts â Alice Prinsep
- Canova Lions (bronze castings)
Births
- January 1
- John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (died 1939)
- Jan VilÃmek, Czech illustrator and painter (died 1938)
- January 29 â William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (died 1941)
- February 21 â Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (died 1952)[7]
- February 27 â Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
- April 6 â René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)[8]
- May 30 â Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
- May 31 â Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)[9]
- June 1 â Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator (died 1920)
- June 18
- George Frampton, English sculptor (died 1928)[10]
- Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)[11]
- June 25 â Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (died 1942)[12]
- August 5 â Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter (died 1942)
- August 18 â Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1940)
- September 7 â Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson), American folk artist (died 1961)
- September 16 â Solomon Joseph Solomon, English portrait painter (died 1927)
- September 30 â Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (died 1949)
- October 4 â Sidney Paget, British illustrator (died 1908)
- date unknown â Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)
Deaths
- January 20 â William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)
- February 16 â Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)
- March 28 â Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (born 1774)
- April 6 â Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)[13]
- April 28 â Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)[14]
- June 15 â Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779)[15]
- June 20 â Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)[16]
- August 22 â Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)
- September 21 â Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)
- October 2 â 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)[17]