1869 In Art

Events from the year 1869 in art.

Events

* January 30 – 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 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
* July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
* December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper ''The Graphic'' is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.

Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – ''The Wine Shop''
* Peter Nicolai Arbo – ''Valkyrie''
* Thomas Armstrong –
The Hay Field
'
* Frédéric Bazille – '' Scène d'été''
* Knud Bergslien – '' Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child''
* Albert Bierstadt
** '' Emigrants Crossing the Plains''
** '' Mount Hood''
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau
** '' The Elder Sister''
** '' The Knitting Girl''
* Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – '' La Danse'' (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
* Albert Charles Challen – ''Mary Seacole''
* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – '' Femme Lisant'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
* Gustave Courbet – ''The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm'' ( Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Edgar Degas – '' Interior'' ( Philadelphia Museum of Art)
* Lowes Cato Dickinson – '' Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson''
* Gustave Doré – '' Andromeda''
* Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – '' The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793''
* Luke Fildes – ''Houseless and Hungry'' (engraving for ''The Graphic'')
* Atkinson Grimshaw –
Autumn Glory: The Old Mill
'
* George P. A. Healy – ''Abraham Lincoln''
* Jean-Jacques Henner – '' Woman on a Black Divan''
* Daniel Huntington – ''Sowing the Word''
* Frederick Richard Lee – ''Morning in the Meadows''
* Frederic Leighton – ''Daedalus and Icarus''
* Édouard 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 – '' Europa and the Bull''
* Mihály Munkácsy – ''Last Day of a Condemned Man''
* Erskine Nicol – '' A Nip Against the Cold''
* Edward Poynter – ''Saint George for England'' (mosaic for Palace of Westminster)
* Thomas Stuart Smith – '' The Pipe of Freedom''
* Thomas Thornycroft – Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England)
* W. L. Wyllie – '' Dawn after a Storm''

Births

* January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
* February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
* February 10 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
* March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
* March 19 – 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 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
* June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
* June 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
* June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
* July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
* October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
* October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
* November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
* December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
* December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
* December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
* ''date unknown'' – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)

Deaths

* January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
* June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
* July 4
** Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
** Édouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
* July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
* August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
* August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
* October 12 – François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
* November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
* December – Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
* December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
* December 29 – 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)

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