1866 in art

Events from the year 1866 in art.



Events

 * July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
 * Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.
 * Théophile Thoré-Bürger publishes the first catalogue raisonné of Vermeer's paintings, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, bringing him to international prominence after nearly two centuries.

Works



 * Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
 * Carl Bloch – In a Roman Osteria
 * Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus
 * Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon
 * Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs
 * The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty
 * Series of Life Sized Heads
 * Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Gustave Courbet
 * L'Origine du monde
 * Le Sommeil
 * Edgar Degas – Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey (reworked in 1880-1881 and again c. 1897)
 * Gustav Doré (woodcuts)
 * Illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours
 * Illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost
 * Giovanni Fattori – La Rotonda di Palmieri
 * Jean-Léon Gérôme
 * Cleopatra and Caesar
 * The Slave Market (approximate date)
 * Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book
 * David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed)
 * Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Sir Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent (Wallace Collection, London; approximate date)
 * August Malmström – Dancing Fairies
 * Édouard Manet
 * The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland
 * Claude Monet
 * Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
 * Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
 * Women in the Garden (begun)
 * Albert Joseph Moore
 * The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed)
 * The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved
 * Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove
 * Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn
 * Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács
 * Frederick Walker – Wayfarers
 * John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze)

Births

 * January 17 – Joseph Bernard, French sculptor (died 1931)
 * January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
 * March 17 – Alice Austen, American photographer (died 1952)
 * June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929)
 * June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935)
 * July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939)
 * July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925)
 * July 19 – John Duncan, Scottish painter (died 1945)
 * July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (died 1943)
 * August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
 * August 13 – Jadwiga Golcz, Polish photographer (died 1936)
 * August 31 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (died 1935)
 * October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)
 * unknown date – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798)
 * January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790)
 * January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790)
 * January 30 – Léon Bonvin, French painter an watercolorist (born 1834)
 * March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814)
 * April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792)
 * April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814)
 * April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812)
 * April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792)
 * April 24 – Giuseppe Tominz, Austrian portrait painter (born 1790)
 * April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802)
 * June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795)
 * June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786)
 * August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838)
 * September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798)
 * November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804)
 * December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796)
 * date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798)