1873 in art

Events from the year 1873 in art.

Events

 * Early – Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is arrested in a public urinal in London and convicted and fined for gross indecency.
 * May – Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie.
 * World exhibition in Vienna.
 * Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently.
 * The collection forming the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is moved to the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia.
 * New Accademia delle Arti del Disegno established in Florence.
 * Leslie Ward, as "Spy", begins producing caricatures for the British magazine Vanity Fair.
 * Michelangelo's statue of David is removed from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to the Galleria dell'Accademia.

Works

 * William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr
 * Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins (original watercolour version)
 * Alexandre Cabanel – La Comtesse de Keller
 * Gustave Caillebotte – Nude woman lying on a couch
 * Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Letter From Daddy
 * Walter Crane – Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome
 * Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Last Cartridges (Les dernières cartouches)
 * Edgar Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans
 * Hans Gude – Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten
 * Winslow Homer – The Boat Builders
 * William Holman Hunt – The Shadow of Death
 * Rudolf Koller – Gotthardpost
 * Ivan Kramskoi
 * Ivan Shishkin
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Édouard Manet
 * Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 * The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Jan Matejko – Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God
 * Pál Szinyei Merse – Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest)
 * Claude Monet
 * The Artist's House at Argenteuil
 * Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
 * Poppies Blooming
 * Albert Joseph Moore – Follow-my-Leader
 * Camille Pissarro – Self-portrait
 * Ilya Repin – Barge Haulers on the Volga
 * John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
 * Heinrich Strack – Berlin Victory Column
 * James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Births

 * January 28 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide 1928)
 * February 14 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (died 1942)
 * March 13 – Léon Delagrange, French sculptor and aviator (died 1910)
 * April 3 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (died 1918)
 * April 4 – Élie Faure, French art historian (died 1937)
 * April 24 – André Bauchant, French painter (died 1958)
 * May 10 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 1954)
 * July 6 – Ethel Sands, American-born painter (died 1962)
 * July 7 – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (died 1942)
 * October 12 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (died 1915)
 * December 5 – Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer was born in England (died 1947)
 * date unknown – Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (died 1961)
 * approximate date – Olowe of Ise, Yoruba wood sculptor (died c. 1938)

Deaths

 * March 25 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (born 1810)
 * April 17 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (born 1783)
 * April 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1809)
 * May 13 – Konstantin Danil, renowned Serbian painter (born 1798)
 * May 19 – Charles Lucy, English painter (born 1814)
 * July 8 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (born 1805)
 * October 2 – Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (born 1881)
 * October 9 – John Evan Thomas, Welsh sculptor (born 1810)
 * November 25 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (born 1792)
 * November 27 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English historical, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (born 1793)
 * December 9 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1791)
 * date unknown
 * Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in both the Biedermeier and Nazarene movement (born 1808)
 * Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (born 1813)
 * Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver (born 1785)