1869 in art
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Events from the year 1869 in art.
Events
- January 30 â New British magazine Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
- January 31 â The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
- May 3 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1869 opens in London, held for the first time at Burlington House
- July 30 â Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
- December 4 â The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema â The Wine Shop
- Thomas Armstrong â The Hay Field
- Peter Nicolai Arbo â Valkyrie
- Thomas Armstrong â The Hay Field
- Frédéric Bazille â Scène d'été
- Knud Bergslien â Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child
- Albert Bierstadt
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux â La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
- Albert Charles Challen â Mary Seacole
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot â Femme Lisant (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Gustave Courbet â The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Edgar Degas â Interior (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- Lowes Cato Dickinson â Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Gustave Doré â Andromeda
- Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ â The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
- Luke Fildes â Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic)
- Atkinson Grimshaw â Autumn Glory: The Old Mill
- George P. A. Healy â Abraham Lincoln
- Jean-Jacques Henner â Woman on a Black Divan
- Daniel Huntington â Sowing the Word
- Frederick Richard Lee â Morning in the Meadows
- Frederic Leighton â Daedalus and Icarus
- Daniel Maclise â King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid[1]
- Ãdouard Manet
- The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection)
- The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Kunsthalle Mannheim)
- Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
- Claude Monet
- Bathers at La Grenouillère
- La Grenouillère
- The Magpie
- Albert Joseph Moore
- The Quartette
- A Venus
- Gustave Moreau â Europa and the Bull
- Mihály Munkácsy â Last Day of a Condemned Man
- Erskine Nicol â A Nip Against the Cold
- Edward Poynter â Saint George for England (mosaic for Palace of Westminster)
- Thomas Stuart Smith â The Pipe of Freedom
- Thomas Thornycroft â Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England)
- W. L. Wyllie â Dawn after a Storm
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Births
- January 15 â StanisÅaw WyspiaÅski, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
- February 7 â Xavier MartÃnez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
- February 10 â Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
- March 1 â Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
- March 19 â Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
- April 6
- Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
- Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
- April 11 â Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
- June 7 â Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
- June 21 â Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
- June 27 â Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
- July 20 â Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
- October 14 â Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
- October 22 â August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
- November 21 â Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
- December 1 â Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
- December 18 â Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
- December 31 â Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
- date unknown â William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)
Deaths
- January 8 â Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
- June 10 â Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
- July 4
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
- Ãdouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
- July 10 â Jan WnÄk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
- August 26 â Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
- August 8 â Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
- October 12 â François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
- November 22 â William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
- December â Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
- December 8 â Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
- December 29 â William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
- date unknown
- Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
- Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)