1868 in art
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Events from the year 1868 in art.
Events
- Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris.
- Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established.
- English merchant Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate, begins to add paintings to his art collection at Doughty House, Richmond, London.
- Due to debt and eviction, Claude Monet attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine river.
Works
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- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends
- Frédéric Bazille
- Self-portrait
- View of the Village
- Albert Bierstadt
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140601200952/http://americanart.si.edu/images/1977/1977.107.1_1a.jpg Among the Sierra Nevada, California]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907180140/http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/detail.dot?objectid=1940.299 In the Sierras]
- Tyrolean Landscape
- Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park (approximate date)
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – Why Born Enslaved! or Why Born a Slave? – French Pourquoi! Naitre esclave? or La Negresse (first conceived){{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/why-born-enslaved#:~:text=Why%20Born%20Enslaved!,-by%20Jean-Baptiste&text=It%20is%20critical%20to%20reckon,sculptors%20of%20the%20nineteenth%20century. |title=Why Born Enslaved! by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
- Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture)
- Lowes Cato Dickinson – [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=ap&npgno=5116&eDate=&lDate=&rNo= Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886]
- Lot Flannery – Abraham Lincoln (marble, Washington, D.C.)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Execution of Marshal Ney
- George P. A. Healy – The Peacemakers
- Holman Hunt – Isabella and the Pot of Basil (large and small versions)
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg – The Child and the Grasshopper (marble)
- Édouard Manet
- The Balcony
- Luncheon in the Studio (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
- Mme. Manet at the Piano (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Portrait d’Émile Zola (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
- Portrait of Théodore Duret (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- John Everett Millais – Vanessa
- Claude Monet – On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
- Albert Joseph Moore
- Azaleas
- A Greek Play (tempera panel for proscenium of Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, London)
- Elisabet Ney – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (sculpture)
- Vasily Perov – At the Railroad
- Val Prinsep – A Venetian Lover
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- In the Summer (The Bohemian girl)
- The Boy with the Cat
- Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The Blue Silk Dress (Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool))
- Lady Lilith (original version)
- Pia de' Tolomei
- Frederick Sandys – Medea
- James Tissot – Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale
- Frederick Walker – The Vagrants
Births
- April 6 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (died 1919)
- April 12 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker (died 1932)
- April 21 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter (suicide 1932)
- April 28 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (died 1941)
- June 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (died 1932)
- June 18 – Georges Lacombe, French sculptor and painter (died 1916)
- July 16 – Willy Gretor, born Vilhelm Petersen, Danish-born painter and art dealer (died 1923)
- October 8
- Fidus (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener), German graphic designer (died 1948)
- Max Slevogt, German artist (died 1932)
- November 11 – Édouard Vuillard, French painter (died 1940)
- November 23 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (died 1953)
Deaths
- January 15 – Lucie Ingemann, Danish religious painter (born 1792)
- January 28 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (born 1805)
- February 14 – Emil Bærentzen, Danish portrait painter and lithographer (born 1799)
- February 21 – Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (born 1836)
- February 26 – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1810)
- March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (born 1781/1784)
- March 10 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (born 1798)
- March 29 – Felix Slade, English lawyer, art collector and founder of the Slade School of Art (born 1788)
- May 2 – James Wilson Carmichael, English marine painter (born 1800)
- May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, German American painter (born 1816)
- August 10
- George Cattermole, English illustrator and watercolourist (born 1800)
- Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (born 1835)
- September 13 – Richard Rothwell, Irish portrait and genre painter (born 1800)
- September 13 – Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist (born 1793)
- September 27 – August Piepenhagen, German painter active in Bohemia (born 1791)
- October 10 – François-Édouard Picot, French historic painter (born 1786)
- November 23
- Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician (born 1783)
- Charles Méryon, French etcher (born 1821)
- December 1 – John Edward Carew, Irish sculptor (born c. 1782)
- date unknown
- Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1782)
- Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (born 1793)