1860 in art

Events

• February 27 – Matthew Brady takes the first of his photographs of Abraham Lincoln.
• February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.
• May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.
• December 30 – Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
• Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe

Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women
• Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
• Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
• Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons
• William Dyce
  • The Man of Sorrows
  • Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
• Francesco Hayez
  • Massimo d'Azeglio
  • Self-portrait at the age of 69
• Hiroshige II – Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū
• William Holman Hunt – The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
• Daniel Huntington – Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire
• Édouard Manet
  • Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• John Everett Millais – The Black Brunswicker
• Clark Mills – Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C.
• John Phillip – The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal
• William Bell Scott – Ailsa Craig
• Rebecca Solomon – Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet
• Simeon Solomon – The Mother of Moses
• John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Robin of Modern Times
• G. F. Watts – Alice Prinsep
• Canova Lions (bronze castings)

Births

• January 1
  • John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (died 1939)
  • Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (died 1938)
• January 29 – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (died 1941)
• February 21 – Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (died 1952)
• February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
• April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)
• May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
• May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)
• June 1 – Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator (died 1920)
• June 18
  • George Frampton, English sculptor (died 1928)
  • Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)
• June 25 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (died 1942)
• August 5 – Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter (died 1942)
• August 18 – Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1940)
• September 7 – Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson), American folk artist (died 1961)
• September 16 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, English portrait painter (died 1927)
• September 30 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (died 1949)
• October 4 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (died 1908)
• date unknown – Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)

Deaths

• January 20 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)
• February 16 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)
• March 28 – Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (born 1774)
• April 6 – Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)
• April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)
• June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779)
• June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)
• August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)
• September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)
• October 2 – Louis Hersent, French painter (born 1777)
• October 3
  • Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (born 1780)
  • Rembrandt Peale, American artist (born 1778)
• date unknown
  • Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (born 1801)
  • Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (born 1784)

References

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