1868 in art

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



 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends
 * Frédéric Bazille
 * Self-portrait
 * View of the Village
 * Albert Bierstadt
 * Among the Sierra Nevada, California
 * 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)
 * Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture)
 * Lowes Cato Dickinson – 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)