1862 in art

• May 1–November 1 – 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London. Notable artistic displays include a large picture gallery; work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company; and an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style.{{cite book|last=Halen|first=Widar|title=Christopher Dresser|publisher=Phaidon|year=1990|isbn=0-7148-2952-8|page=34}} Morris designs his first wallpaper, Trellis.
• November 3 – First appearance in print of the term Macchiaioli for the group of revolutionary young Italian painters, in a hostile review published in the journal Gazzetta del Popolo.{{cite book|authorlink=Norma Broude|last=Broude|first=Norma|year=1987|title=The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century|location=New Haven; London|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-03547-0|page=96}}
• Claude Monet becomes a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he meets Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley, sharing new approaches to painting en plein air.

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• Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – The Pearl and the Wave
• Albert Bierstadt
• [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/albert-bierstadt/the-fishing-fleet-1862 The Fishing Fleet]
• Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War
• Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Isted Lion (bronze)
• George Price Boyce – At Binsey, near Oxford
• William Burges - Great Bookcase{{cite book|title=Building News and Architectural Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2MoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100|year=1862|publisher=The Proprietors|pages=100}}
• Gustave Courbet – Femme nue couchée
• Thomas Crawford (posthumous) – Statue of Freedom (bronze for dome of United States Capitol){{cite book|title=The United States Congress & Capitol: A Walking Tour Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVAo32h0e10C&pg=PA56|year=2002|publisher=U.S. Senate|pages=56}}
• Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis (completed)
• Eugène Delacroix
• Ovid among the Scythians (second version)
• Shipwreck on the Coast
• Augustus Egg – The Travelling Companions
• Anselm Feuerbach – Iphigenia (first version)
• William Powell Frith – The Railway Station
• Walter Greaves – Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-Race Day
• Arthur Hughes – [http://www.arthurhughes.org/hmfsea.htm Home from Sea] (reworking of The Mother's Grave)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Turkish Bath (original form)
• Eastman Johnson – A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
• Edward Lear – Philæ and Beachy Head (pair of paintings)
• Édouard Manet
• Music in the Tuileries (National Gallery, London)
• Lola de Valence (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• The Old Musician
• Mlle.Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• The Street Singer (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Robert Braithwaite Martineau – The Last Day in the Old Home
• Jan Matejko – Stańczyk
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – Napoleon I in 1814
• Jean-François Millet – L'homme à la houe ("The Man With the Hoe")
• William Morris – Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
• Moritz Daniel Oppenheim – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
• Moritz von Schwind – The Honeymoon
• Clarkson Stanfield – Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849
• James Tissot – The Return of the Prodigal Son
• G. F. Watts – approximate date
• Lady Margaret Beaumont and her Daughter
• Sisters
• Edith Villiers
• James McNeill Whistler
• [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/james-mcneill-whistler/the-last-of-old-westminster The Last of Old Westminster]
• Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

• March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
• March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951){{cite book|author1=Faith Andrews Bedford|author2=Frank Weston Benson|title=Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXTqAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1994|publisher=Random House Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8478-1609-5|pages=16–21}}
• April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (died 1938)
• June 14 – Herbert Dicksee, English painter (died 1942)
• July 10 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (died 1946)
• July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (died 1918){{cite book|author1=Allan S. Janik|author2=Hans Veigl|title=Wittgenstein in Vienna: A biographical excursion through the city and its history|url=https://archive.org/details/wittgensteininvi0000jani|url-access=registration|date=6 October 1998|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-211-83077-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wittgensteininvi0000jani/page/149 149]}}
• July 29 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928)
• August 15 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (died 1957)
• September 12 – Carl Eytel, German American artist (died 1925)
• October 26 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (died 1944)
• November 25 – Katharine Adams, English bookbinder (died 1952)
• December 3 – Charles Grafly, American sculptor (died 1929)

• January 3 – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor (born 1777)
• February 11 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overdose of laudanum (born 1829){{cite book|author1=Jan Marsh|author2=Elizabeth Siddall|title=Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHRIAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Ruskin Gallery|isbn=978-0-86321-135-5|page=17}}
• February 15 – Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
• March 18 – Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably painted Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (born 1785)
• March 19 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter (born 1789)
• May – Alexandre-François Caminade, French religious and portrait painter (born 1783)
• May 14 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (born 1787)
• July 7 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (born 1807)
• July 17 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (born 1780)
• August 7 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789)
• August 10 – Erin Corr, Irish engraver (born 1793)
• August 28 – Albrecht Adam, German painter of battles and horses (born 1786)
• September 20 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1792)
• October 29 – John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniaturist (born 1784)
• Undated – Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner (born 1789)

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