1860 in art

Events from the year 1860 in art.

Events

 * February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.
 * May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.
 * 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.

Awards

 * 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

Works



 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women
 * Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
 * Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
 * Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons
 * Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)
 * William Dyce
 * The Man of Sorrows
 * Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
 * 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.
 * 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)

Births

 * 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)
 * February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
 * April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)
 * May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
 * May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)
 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)
 * June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779)
 * June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)
 * 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
 * Julien-Honoré-Germain d'Aubuisson, French portrait and miniature painter (born 1786)
 * Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (born 1801)
 * Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)
 * Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (born 1784)