1853 in art

Events from the year 1853 in art.

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London
• 15 May – Salon of 1853 opens in Paris
• Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience

• Ivan Aivazovsky
  • Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop
  • The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle)
• Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sorauren
• John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
• Théodore Chassériau – Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
• William Powell Frith – The Sleeping Model
• Francis Grant
  • Portrait of Hope Grant
  • Portrait of Lord John Russell
• Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience ^[1]
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
  • Princesse Albert de Broglie
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
• John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement , The Great Day of His Wrath ^[2] and The Plains of Heaven
• John Everett Millais
  • The Order of Release
  • The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 ^[3]
• Gustave Moreau – The Song of Songs
• Clarkson Stanfield – The Last of the Crew ^[4]
• Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
• Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born ^[5]
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
• Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
  • Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight
  • Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon
• Jules-Claude Ziegler – The Peace of Amiens

Births

• February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928) ^[6]
• March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918) ^[7]
• March 30
  • Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888) ^[8]
  • Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890) ^[9]
• May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
• May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
• September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
• October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927) ^[10]
• December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927) ^[11]

Deaths

• February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799) ^[12]
• April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779) ^[13]
• June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
• July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
• July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
• November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814) ^[14]
• December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
• date unknown
  • Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
  • Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)

References

1. Barringer, T. J. Reading the Pre-Raphaelites. p. 96. ISBN   0300077874. OCLC   45029339.
2. Michael Wheeler, Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p.83
3. Jason Rosenfeld (2012). John Everett Millais. Phaidon Press Ltd. pp. 70–1, 73–4, 88, 102, 111–12.
4. John Munday (1996). Edward William Cooke, 1811-1880 : a Man of His Time. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 236.
5. Lene Østermark-Johansen (2022). Walter Pater's European Imagination. Oxford University Press. p. 214.
6. "Nils Nilsen Bergslien". Norsk Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
7. William Hauptman; Ferdinand Hodler (2007). Hodler. 5 Continents. p. 10. ISBN   978-88-7439-362-6
8. "Frank O'Meara 1853–1888". Milmo-Penny Irish Art Archive. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
9. Pomerans, Arnold (1997). The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. Penguin Classics. p. 1. ISBN   978-0-14-044674-6.
10. "Ville d'Etampes: Acte de naissance de Louise Abbéma (31 octobre 1853)". www.corpusetampois.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
11. "Tuxen, Lauritz (1853–1927)". Vestjysk Kunstgalleri. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
12. Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kopisch, August"  . Encyclopedia Americana .
13. Jan Willem Pieneman in the RKD
14.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bendel, Hans Sigmund". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.