1862 in art
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Events from the year 1862 in art.
Events
- May 1âNovember 1 â 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London. Notable artistic displays include a large picture gallery; work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company; and an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style.[1] Morris designs his first wallpaper, Trellis.
- May 5 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1862 opens at the National Gallery in London
- November 3 â First appearance in print of the term Macchiaioli for the group of revolutionary young Italian painters, in a hostile review published in the journal Gazzetta del Popolo.[2]
- Claude Monet becomes a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he meets Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley, sharing new approaches to painting en plein air.
Works
- Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry â The Pearl and the Wave
- Albert Bierstadt
- Herman Wilhelm Bissen â Isted Lion (bronze)
- George Price Boyce â At Binsey, near Oxford
- William Burges - Great Bookcase[3]
- Gustave Courbet â Femme nue couchée
- Thomas Crawford (posthumous) â Statue of Freedom (bronze for dome of United States Capitol)[4]
- Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis (completed)
- Eugène Delacroix
- Ovid among the Scythians (second version)
- Shipwreck on the Coast
- Augustus Egg â The Travelling Companions
- Anselm Feuerbach â Iphigenia (first version)
- William Powell Frith â The Railway Station
- Walter Greaves â Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-Race Day
- Arthur Hughes â Home from Sea (reworking of The Mother's Grave)
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres â The Turkish Bath (original form)
- Eastman Johnson â A Ride for Liberty â The Fugitive Slaves
- Edward Lear â Philæ and Beachy Head (pair of paintings)
- Ãdouard Manet
- Music in the Tuileries (National Gallery, London)
- Lola de Valence (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Old Musician
- Mlle.Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- The Street Singer (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Robert Braithwaite Martineau â The Last Day in the Old Home
- Jan Matejko â StaÅczyk
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier â Napoleon I in 1814
- Jean-François Millet â L'homme à la houe ("The Man With the Hoe")
- William Morris â Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
- Moritz Daniel Oppenheim â The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
- Moritz von Schwind â The Honeymoon
- Clarkson Stanfield â Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849
- James Tissot â The Return of the Prodigal Son
- G. F. Watts â approximate date
- Lady Margaret Beaumont and her Daughter
- Sisters
- Edith Villiers
- James McNeill Whistler
Births
- March 17 â Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
- March 24 â Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951)[5]
- April 26 â Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (died 1938)
- June 14 â Herbert Dicksee, English painter (died 1942)
- July 10 â Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (died 1946)
- July 14 â Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (died 1918)[6]
- July 29 â Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928)
- August 15 â Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (died 1957)
- September 12 â Carl Eytel, German American artist (died 1925)
- October 26 â Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (died 1944)
- November 25 â Katharine Adams, English bookbinder (died 1952)
- December 3 â Charles Grafly, American sculptor (died 1929)
Deaths
- January 3 â Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor (born 1777)
- February 11 â Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overdose of laudanum (born 1829)[7]
- February 15 â Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
- March 18 â Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably painted Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (born 1785)
- March 19 â Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter (born 1789)
- May â Alexandre-François Caminade, French religious and portrait painter (born 1783)
- May 14 â Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (born 1787)
- July 7 â Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (born 1807)
- July 17 â Ãtienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (born 1780)
- August 7 â William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789)
- August 10 â Erin Corr, Irish engraver (born 1793)
- August 28 â Albrecht Adam, German painter of battles and horses (born 1786)
- September 20 â Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1792)
- October 29 â John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniaturist (born 1784)
- Undated â Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner (born 1789)