1853 in art
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Events from the year 1853 in art.
Events
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.
Works
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- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop
- The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle)
- Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sobrauren
- John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
- Théodore Chassériau – The Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Gustave Courbet – The Bathers (Les Baigneuses, Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
- Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience{{Cite book |last=Barringer |first=T. J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45029339 |title=Reading the Pre-Raphaelites |isbn=0300077874 |pages=96 |oclc=45029339}}
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
- Princesse Albert de Broglie
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
- John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His WrathMichael Wheeler, Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p.83 and The Plains of Heaven
- John Everett Millais
- The Order of Release
- The Proscribed Royalist, 1651
- Gustave Moreau – The Death of Darius
- Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
- Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
- Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
- Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight
- Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon
- Jules-Claude Ziegler – The Peace of Amiens
Births
- February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)
- March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
- March 30
- Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)
- May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
- May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
- September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
- October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927){{Cite web |title=Ville d'Etampes: Acte de naissance de Louise Abbéma (31 octobre 1853) |url=http://www.corpusetampois.com/che-19-18531031abbema.html |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.corpusetampois.com}}
- December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)
Deaths
- February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
- March 27 – Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (born 1780)
- April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
- June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
- July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
- July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
- November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)
- December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
- date unknown
- Maria Johanna Görtz – Swedish still life artist (born 1783)
- Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
- Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)