1863 in art
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Events from the year 1863 in art.
Events
- March â American-born painter James McNeill Whistler settles close to the River Thames in Chelsea, London, where he will live for most of the rest of his life.
- May 4 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1863 opens at the National Gallery in London
- June 12 â The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts.
- The Ãcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris becomes independent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
- Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography.
- Alexander Gilchrist's Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus" is published in London, edited posthumously by Anne Gilchrist.
Exhibitions
- May 17 â Opening of first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés in Paris (in which Manet exhibits Le déjeuner sur l'herbe and two other paintings; Whistler exhibits Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl and Cézanne first exhibits), and coining of the term avant-garde.
Works
- Peter Nicolai Arbo â Horse Herd on the High Mountains
- Thomas Jones Barker â 'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) (approximate date)
- Albert Bierstadt â The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
- David Gilmour Blythe
- Alexey Bogolyubov â Easter procession in Yaroslavl
- John Brett â Florence from Bellosguardo
- Alexandre Cabanel â The Birth of Venus (first version, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Paul Cézanne â The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Charles Camille Chazal â Institution of the Eucharist
- François-Claudius Compte-Calix â Vieil Ami
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes â Work (Musée de Picardie, Amiens)
- Joseph Durham â Memorial to the Great Exhibition, London
- Thomas Charles Farrer â A Buckwheat Field on Thomas Cole's Farm
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â Dance of the Almeh
- Jozef Israëls â Fishermen's Children (first version)
- Italian â The Veiled Nun (marble bust, approximate date)
- Vilhelm Kyhn â Efter solnedgang i udkanten af en landsby ("After Sunset on the Outskirts of a Village")
- Ãdouard Manet
- Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass" or "The Picnic") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Olympia (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- ââYoung Woman Reclining in Spanish Costumeââ
- Robert Braithwaite Martineau â The Last Chapter
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier â Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino
- John Everett Millais
- Albert Joseph Moore â Wall decorations at Coombe Abbey
- Elisabet Ney â Eilhard Mitscherlich (sculpture)
- Vincent Pilz â Pegasus (pair of bronzes) (approximate date)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance
- Clarkson Stanfield â The Morning After Trafalgar[1]
- Marcus Stone â On the Road from Waterloo to Paris
- James Tissot â The Two Sisters
- Eugene von Guerard â North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko
- Frederick Walker â The Lost Path
- Edward Matthew Ward â Hogarth's Studio in 1739
- James McNeill Whistler â Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach
Births
- January 11 â Mary Tannahill, American painter and artist in fabrics (died 1951)
- January 29 â Suzette Holten, née Skovgaard, Danish painter and ceramist (died 1937)
- April 3 â Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and designer, co-founder of the Art Nouveau movement (died 1957)
- May 17 â C. R. Ashbee, English designer (died 1942)
- June 12 â Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (died 1931)
- June 16 â Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (died 1898)
- June 21 â Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, née Brodersen, Danish sculptor (died 1945)
- June 27 â Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1949)
- August 30 (August 18 Old Style) â Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian color photographer (died 1944)
- September 6 â Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
- October 24 â Bertha Jaques, American etcher (died 1941)
- November 11 â Paul Signac, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1935)
- December 5 â George Pirie, Scottish painter (died 1946)
- December 12 â Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 6 â Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
- January 17 â Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (born 1789)
- February 6 â Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1789)
- February 16 â Alvan Fisher, American pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (born 1792)
- February 20 â John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (born 1798)
- April 4 â Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (born 1790)
- June 5 â Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (born 1791)
- July 7 â William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (born 1786)
- July 12 â Ãtienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (born 1781)
- August 13 â Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (born 1798)
- September 19 â Joseph Nigg â Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (born 1782)
- December 4 â James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (born 1798)
- December 10 â Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (born 1797)
- December 27 â Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (born 1796)
- date unknown
- Tommaso Benedetti, Austrian painter (born 1797)
- Per Krafft the Younger, Swedish portrait and historical painter (born 1777)
- Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (born 1778)
- Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (born 1794)