1860 in art

• February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.{{cite web|title=Artists Rifles Association|url=http://www.artistsriflesassociation.org/regiment-artists-rifles.htm|date=2006–2008|accessdate=2013-08-14}}
• May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.{{cite journal|last=Rossetti |first=William Michael |author-link=William Michael Rossetti |last2=Rossetti |first2=Dante Gabriel |last3=Hartley |first3=Harold |author3-link=Harold Hartley (businessman) |title=Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal |journal=The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs |publisher=The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd. |volume=1 |issue=3 |date=May 1903 |issn=0951-0788 |jstor=855671 |pages=273-295}}
• 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/the-museum/about-the-museum/|title=About the Museum|website=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts|access-date=11 November 2024}}

• 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

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• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women{{Cite web |url=http://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/a-bargain-brabant-women-1860/ |title=A Bargain Brabant Women | the Knohl Collection |access-date=2015-07-13 |archive-date=2015-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713230028/http://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/a-bargain-brabant-women-1860/ |url-status=dead }}
• Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
• Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
• Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons[https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/four-seasons-spring-summer-autumn-winter The four seasons : Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter | Petit Palais]
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Repose
• Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)
• William Dyce
• The Man of Sorrows
• Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
• William Powell Frith – Claude Duval
• 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
• Friedrich Kaulbach – Elisabet Ney
• 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)

• 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){{cite DWB|id=s2-JOHN-GOS-1860|title=John, Sir William Goscombe (1860–1952), sculptor and medallist|author=Dr. Paul Joyner|year=2001|access-date=20 September 2020}}
• February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
• April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945){{cite book |last=Forrer |first=L. |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists |chapter=Lalique, René |publisher=Spink & Son Ltd |location=London |volume=III |year=1907 |pages=275–278}}
• May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
• May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942){{cite book|editor1=Wendy Baron|editor2=Richard|year=1992|title=Sickert: Paintings|publisher=Royal Academy of Arts|page=33}}
• 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)

• 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)Acte de décès no 790, 7 avril 1860, Paris 6e, Archives de Paris (in French)
• April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811){{JewishEncyclopedia|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=G&artid=520|article=Guttmann, Jakob|author=Isidore Singer and A. M. Friedenberg}}
• June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779){{cite book|author=John Denison Champlin, Jr.|title=Cyclopedia Of Painters and Paintings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tJNVgoQe8_UC|year=1927|page=37}}
• June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778){{cite book|author1=H. P. Clive|author2=Professor of French Peter Clive|title=Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0597Beh43EC&pg=PA219|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-816672-6|pages=219}}
• 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){{cite book|author1=Alfred Karl Morgenroth|author2=Peter Raabe|title=Von deutscher Tonkunst: Festschrift zu Peter Raabes 70. Geburtstag. In Gemeinschaft mit zweiundzwanzig Fachgenossen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhAhAAAAMAAJ|year=1942|publisher=Peters|page=126}}

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