1862 in art

Events from the year 1862 in art.

Events

 * 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. 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.
 * 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.

Works



 * Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – The Pearl and the Wave
 * Albert Bierstadt
 * The Fishing Fleet
 * Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War
 * Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Isted Lion (bronze)
 * George Price Boyce – At Binsey, near Oxford
 * William Burges - Great Bookcase
 * Gustave Courbet – Femme nue couchée
 * Thomas Crawford (posthumous) – Statue of Freedom (bronze for dome of United States Capitol)
 * Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis (completed)
 * Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (second version)
 * 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 – 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
 * 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
 * The Last of Old Westminster
 * Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

Births

 * March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
 * March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)
 * 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)