1866 in art

none 1866 art Events from the year 1866 in art. thumb|330px|Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front Events May 7 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1866 opens at the National Gallery in London July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. Following the death of Charles Lock Eastlake, Edwin Landseer is elected as the new President of the Royal Academy. After Landseer refuses the position, the portraitist Francis Grant becomes president Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name. Théophile Thoré-Bürger publishes the first catalogue raisonné of Vermeer's paintings, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, bringing him to international prominence after nearly two centuries.F. J. Duparc A. K. Wheelock 1995 Johannes Vermeer Washington, DC National Gallery of Art 42, 59 0-300-06558-2 Works thumb|250px|Monet's painting of his future wife Camille Doncieux 300px|thumb|Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie Category:1866 sculptures Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie Carl Bloch – In a Roman Osteria Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus William Bromley – Katherine of Aragon and the Cardinalshttps://collections.manchesterartgallery.org/collections/item/67d4af4a-2fa5-328f-b76a-3d3fc4c1cab0/ Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty Series of Life Sized Heads Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Agostina (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) The Church of Marisselhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE000569 Gustave Courbet L'Origine du monde Le Sommeil Edgar Degas – Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey (reworked in 1880-1881 and again c. 1897) Gustav Doré (woodcuts) Illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours Illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost Giovanni Fattori – La Rotonda di Palmieri Jean-Léon Gérôme Cleopatra and Caesar The Slave Market (approximate date) Peter Graham – A Spate in the Highlandshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-spate-in-the-highlands-205094 Frederick Daniel Hardy – The Dismayed Artisthttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-dismayed-artist-18896 Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book George Peter Alexander Healy – Portrait of William Tecumseh Shermanhttps://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.65.40 David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed) Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent Queen Victoria at Osborne August Malmström – Dancing Fairies Édouard Manet The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland Claude Monet Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe Women in the Garden (begun) Albert Joseph Moore The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed) The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens Henry Nelson O'Neil – The Last Moments of Raphaelhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-last-moments-of-raphael-188915 Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Mother Anthony's Tavern Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács Frederick Walker – Wayfarers Edward Matthew Ward – Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hallhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/leicester-and-amy-robsart-at-cumnor-hall-18050 John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze) Henry Tanworth Wells – Volunteers at a Firing Pointhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/volunteers-at-a-firing-point-1866-149340 Births January 17 – Joseph Bernard, French sculptor (died 1931) January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952) February 26 – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922) March 17 – Alice Austen, American photographer (died 1952) May 11 – Clare Atwood, English painter (died 1962) June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929) June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935) July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939) July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925) July 19 – John Duncan, Scottish painter (died 1945) July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (died 1943) August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929) August 13 – Jadwiga Golcz, Polish photographer (died 1936) August 31 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (died 1935) October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931) Deaths January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798) January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790) January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790) January 30 – Léon Bonvin, French painter an watercolorist (born 1834) March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814) April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792) April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814) April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812) April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792) April 24 – Giuseppe Tominz, Austrian portrait painter (born 1790) April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802) June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795) June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786) August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838) September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798) November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804) December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796) date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798) References Category:Years of the 19th century in art Category:1860s in art