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Overview of the events of 1861 in art
Events from the year 1861 in art.
- February –
Hilda Sjölin opens a photography studio in
Malmö, making her one of the first known Swedish female professional photographers.
-
July 15 –
English painter
Joanna Mary Boyce dies aged 29 from complications following the birth of her third child, leaving her paintings
Bird of God and Undine uncompleted (the latter being finished by her widower
Henry Tanworth Wells);
Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a drawing of her on her deathbed.
[1]
- date unknown
-
Paul Cézanne arrives in Paris to join his friend
Émile Zola; while there he meets
Camille Pissarro.
[2]
-
Berthe Morisot becomes a pupil of
Corot.
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Édouard Manet has his first paintings accepted by the
Salon (Paris) (
The Spanish Singer and Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet).
-
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals",
[3] set up in
London by
William Morris,
P. P. Marshall,
Charles Faulkner,
Ford Madox Brown,
Edward Burne-Jones,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and
Philip Webb to craft
Pre-Raphaelite-inspired furnishings.
[4]
-
William Bell Scott concludes his series of
murals of
Northumbrian history at
Wallington Hall with
Iron and Coal, the Nineteenth Century.
[5]
Auguste Bonheur – La Sortie du pâturage
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January 21 –
Đorđe Jovanović,
Serbian sculptor (died
1953)
-
February 1 –
Jacques-Émile Blanche, French painter (died
1942)
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April 9 –
Charles Holroyd,
English etcher (died
1917)
-
June 19 –
Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor (died
1932)
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June 29 –
Pedro Figari, Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer and politician (died
1938)
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July 18 –
Lucien Simon, French painter and teacher (died
1945)
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August 9 –
J. W. Godward, English
Neoclassical painter (suicide
1922)
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August 17 –
Ludwig von Hofmann, German Impressionist painter (died
1945)
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October 4 –
Frederic Remington, American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer (died
1909)
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October 15 –
Nels N. Alling, Danish-American sculptor (died
1955)
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October 30 –
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (died
1929)
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December 8
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December 16 –
Antonio de La Gándara, French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (died
1917)
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December 20 –
Ivana Kobilca, Slovene realist painter (died
1926)
- date unknown –
Kiyohara Tama, Sicily-based Japanese painter (died
1939)
-
January 11 –
Karl Altmann,
German painter (born
1802)
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February 3 –
Ferdinand Deppe, German
naturalist,
explorer and painter (born 1794)
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February 7 –
Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and an etcher (born
1799)
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February 9 –
Francis Danby,
Irish-born landscape painter (born
1793)
-
March 10 (
February 26
O.S.) –
Taras Shevchenko,
Ukrainian poet and artist (born
1814)
-
April 14 –
Utagawa Kuniyoshi,
Japanese artist of the
ukiyo-e style of
woodblock prints and painting (born
1797)
-
May 21 –
Benjamin Paul Akers,
American sculptor (born
1825)
-
July 15 –
Joanna Mary Boyce,
English portrait, genre and landscape painter (born
1831)
-
August 17 –
Johann David Passavant, German painter and art
curator (born
1787)
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September 22 –
Alexei Yegorov, Russian painter (born
1776)
-
November 26 –
Wilhelm Hensel, German painter, husband of
Fanny Hensel (born
1794)
-
December 24 –
Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort, French oil and watercolor painter (born 1793)
[6]
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December 25 -
Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subjects painter (born 1793)
- date unknown –
Andrew Hunt, English landscape painter (born
1790)