1869 in art

Events from the year 1869 in art.

Events

 * January 30 – New British magazine Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
 * January 31 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
 * July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
 * December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.

Works

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Wine Shop
 * Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrie
 * Thomas Armstrong – The Hay Field
 * Frédéric Bazille – Scène d'été
 * Knud Bergslien – Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child
 * Albert Bierstadt
 * Emigrants Crossing the Plains
 * Mount Hood
 * William-Adolphe Bouguereau
 * The Elder Sister
 * The Knitting Girl
 * Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
 * Albert Charles Challen – Mary Seacole
 * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Femme Lisant (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Gustave Courbet – The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Edgar Degas – Interior (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 * Lowes Cato Dickinson – Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
 * Gustave Doré – Andromeda
 * Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
 * Luke Fildes – Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic)
 * Atkinson Grimshaw – Autumn Glory: The Old Mill
 * George P. A. Healy – Abraham Lincoln
 * Jean-Jacques Henner – Woman on a Black Divan
 * Daniel Huntington – Sowing the Word
 * Frederick Richard Lee – Morning in the Meadows
 * Frederic Leighton – Daedalus and Icarus
 * Édouard Manet
 * The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection)
 * The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 * The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Kunsthalle Mannheim)
 * Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
 * Claude Monet
 * Bathers at La Grenouillère
 * La Grenouillère
 * The Magpie
 * Albert Joseph Moore
 * The Quartette
 * A Venus
 * Gustave Moreau – Europa and the Bull
 * Mihály Munkácsy – Last Day of a Condemned Man
 * Erskine Nicol – A Nip Against the Cold
 * Edward Poynter – Saint George for England (mosaic for Palace of Westminster)
 * Thomas Stuart Smith – The Pipe of Freedom
 * Thomas Thornycroft – Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England)
 * W. L. Wyllie – Dawn after a Storm

Births

 * January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
 * February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
 * February 10 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
 * March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
 * March 19 – Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
 * April 6
 * Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
 * Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
 * April 11 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
 * June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
 * June 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
 * June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
 * July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
 * October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
 * October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
 * November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
 * December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
 * December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
 * December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
 * date unknown – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
 * June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
 * July 4
 * Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
 * Édouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
 * July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
 * August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
 * August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
 * October 12 – François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
 * November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
 * December – Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
 * December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
 * December 29 – William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
 * date unknown
 * Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
 * Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)