1859 In Art

Events from the year 1859 in art.

Events

* March 22 – Scottish National Gallery opens to the public in Edinburgh in neoclassical premises designed by W. H. Playfair.
* April 26 – William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden. Edward Burne-Jones presents them with a self-painted wardrobe.
* 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.
* This year's Paris Salon admits photographs.
* The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army.

Works

* Peter Nicolai Arbo – '' Saint Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad''
* Thomas Jones Barker – '' The Relief of Lucknow''
* Albert Bierstadt – some dates approximate
** ''Bernese Alps''
** ''Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies''
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* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – '' French Peasants Finding Their Stolen Child''
* Frederic E. Church – ''The Heart of the Andes''
* Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg – ''Monument to Nicholas I'' (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse
* Thomas Couture – ''Daydreams''
* Eugène Delacroix – ''Ovid among the Scythians'' (first version)
* Robert S. Duncanson – '' Landscape with Rainbow''
* William Dyce – '' Beatrice (Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine)''
* William Maw Egley – ''Omnibus Life in London''
* Henri Fantin-Latour – ''Self-portrait''
* Francesco Hayez – '' The Kiss'', an expression of Italian Romanticism
* James Clarke Hook
** ''The Brook''
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* Arthur Hughes – '' The Long Engagement''
* Charles-Auguste Lebourg – ''Gallic Victim'' (marble)
* Édouard Manet – '' The Absinthe Drinker'' (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
* John Everett Millais – '' The Vale of Rest''
* Jean-François Millet – '' The Angelus'' (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Elisabet Ney – ''Arthur Schopenhauer'' (sculpture)
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – '' Bocca Baciata'', the first of his portraits of single female figures (Fanny Cornforth)
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – '' Thoughts of the Past''
* James McNeill Whistler – '' Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge''

Births

* January 28 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (died 1948)
* May 25 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait, and genre painter (died 1944)
* June 16 – Paja Jovanović, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters, with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić (died 1957)
* June 17 – Walter Osborne, Irish Impressionist painter (died 1903)
* August 22 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (died 1932)
* October 17 – Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter (died 1935)
* November 10 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (died 1923)
* November 27 – William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (died 1886)
* December 2 – Georges-Pierre Seurat, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1891)
* December 25 – Anna Palm de Rosa, Swedish-born painter (died 1924)
* December 30 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (died 1928)

Deaths

* February 8 – William Edward West, American portrait painter (born 1788)
* March 3 – Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1778)
* March 24 – James Stark, English painter (born 1794)
* April 22 – Edward Villiers Rippingille, English painter (born c.1790)
* May 5 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre works painter (born 1794)
* May 8 – José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1781)
* June 7 – David Cox, English landscape painter (born 1783)
* June 20 – Hans Michelsen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1789)
* August 3 – Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (born 1801)
* August 27 – Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (born 1788)
* October 21 – William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (born 1774)
* November 13 - Ernesta Legnani Bisi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1788)
* November 17 – James Ward, English animal painter and engraver (born 1769)
* December 17 – Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (born 1794)
* ''date unknown'' – John Bacon, English sculptor (born 1777)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1850s in art