1853 in art

Events from the year 1853 in art.

Events

 * Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

 * 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
 * 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 Wrath  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)
 * 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

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)
 * 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)