1863 In Art

Events from the year 1863 in art.

Events

* March – 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.
* June 12 – 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 École 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 – 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 – ''Horse Herd on the High Mountains''
* Thomas Jones Barker –
'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor)
' (approximate date)
* Albert Bierstadt – ''The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak''
* David Gilmour Blythe
** '' Libby Prison''
** '' Man Eating in a Field''
* Alexey Bogolyubov – '' Easter procession in Yaroslavl''
* Alexandre Cabanel – '' The Birth of Venus'' (first version, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Paul Cézanne – '' The Judgement of Paris'' (approximate date)
* Charles Camille Chazal – ''Institution of the Eucharist''
* François-Claudius Compte-Calix –
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – '' Work'' ( Musée de Picardie, Amiens)
* Joseph Durham – Memorial to the Great Exhibition, London
* Thomas Charles Farrer – '' A Buckwheat Field on Thomas Cole's Farm''
* Jozef Israëls – ''Fishermen's Children'' (first version)
* Italian – ''The Veiled Nun'' (marble bust, approximate date)
* Vilhelm Kyhn – ("After Sunset on the Outskirts of a Village")
* Édouard Manet
** '' Le déjeuner sur l'herbe'' ("The Luncheon on the Grass" or "The Picnic") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
** ''Olympia'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Robert Braithwaite Martineau – ''The Last Chapter''
* Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – '' Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino''
* John Everett Millais – ''My First Sermon''
* Albert Joseph Moore – Wall decorations at Coombe Abbey
* Elisabet Ney – ''Eilhard Mitscherlich'' (sculpture)
* Vincent Pilz – ''Pegasus'' (pair of bronzes) ''(approximate date)''
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – ''Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance''
* Eugene von Guerard – '' North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko''
* Frederick Walker – '' The Lost Path''
* James McNeill Whistler – '' Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach''

Births

* January 11 – Mary Tannahill, American painter and artist in fabrics (died 1951)
* January 29 – Suzette Holten, née Skovgaard, Danish painter and ceramist (died 1937)
* April 3 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and designer, co-founder of the Art Nouveau movement (died 1957)
* May 17 – C. R. Ashbee, English designer (died 1942)
* June 12 – Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (died 1931)
* June 16 – Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (died 1898)
* June 21 – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, née Brodersen, Danish sculptor (died 1945)
* June 27 – Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1949)
* August 30 (August 18 Old Style) – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian color photographer (died 1944)
* September 6 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
* October 24 – Bertha Jaques, American etcher (died 1941)
* November 11 – Paul Signac, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1935)
* December 5 – George Pirie, Scottish painter (died 1946)
* December 12 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died 1944)

Deaths

* January 6 – Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
* January 17 – Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (born 1789)
* February 6 – Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1789)
* February 16 – Alvan Fisher, American pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (born 1792)
* February 20 – John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (born 1798)
* April 4 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (born 1790)
* June 5 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (born 1791)
* July 7 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (born 1786)
* July 12 – Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (born 1781)
* August 13 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (born 1798)
* September 19 – Joseph Nigg – Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (born 1782)
* December 4 – James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (born 1798)
* December 10 – Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (born 1797)
* December 27 – 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)

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