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1861 in art
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Events from the year
1861 in art
.
Events
February –
Hilda Sjölin
opens a photography studio in
Malmö
, making her one of the first known Swedish female professional photographers.
July 15
–
English
painter
Joanna Mary Boyce
dies aged 29 from complications following the birth of her third child, leaving her paintings
Bird of God
and
Undine
uncompleted (the latter being finished by her widower
Henry Tanworth Wells
);
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
makes a drawing of her on her deathbed.
[
1
]
date unknown
Paul Cézanne
arrives in Paris to join his friend
Émile Zola
; while there he meets
Camille Pissarro
.
[
2
]
Berthe Morisot
becomes a pupil of
Corot
.
Édouard Manet
has his first paintings accepted by the
Salon (Paris)
(
The Spanish Singer
and
Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet
).
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
, "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals",
[
3
]
set up in
London
by
William Morris
,
P. P. Marshall
,
Charles Faulkner
,
Ford Madox Brown
,
Edward Burne-Jones
,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and
Philip Webb
to craft
Pre-Raphaelite
-inspired furnishings.
[
4
]
William Bell Scott
concludes his series of
murals
of
Northumbrian
history at
Wallington Hall
with
Iron and Coal, the Nineteenth Century
.
[
5
]
Works
Auguste Bonheur
–
La Sortie du pâturage
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
–
The Education of the Children of Clovis
Richard Ansdell
–
The Hunted Slaves
John Bell
–
Crimean War Memorial
(London)
Auguste Bonheur
–
La Sortie du pâturage
("The Way to Market")
Joanna Mary Boyce
Bird of God
Head of a Mulatto Woman
Frederic Edwin Church
The Icebergs
Oosisoak
Edgar Degas
-
Semiramis Building Babylon
Jean-Léon Gérôme
–
Phryne before the Areopagus
Gustave Achille Guillaumet
–
Arab Ploughing with Camels in the Evening Landscape
James Clarke Hook
–
Compass'd by the Inviolate Sea
Thomas Dow Jones
–
Abraham Lincoln
(bust)
Daniel Maclise
–
The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo
(wall painting in
Palace of Westminster
, 1860-61)
Édouard Manet
Boy Carrying a Sword
La Nymphe surprise
Albert Joseph Moore
–
The Mother of Sisera Looked out a Window
John Morgan
–
Gentlemen of the Jury
Joseph Noel Paton
–
Dawn: Luther at Erfurt – Justification by Faith
Franz Xaver Reich –
Mother Kinzig
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fair Rosamund
Lucrezia Borgia
Rebecca Solomon
The Arrest of a Deserter
The Young Teacher
Karl von Piloty
–
Nero Dancing Upon the Ruins of Rome
Karl Ferdinand Wimar
–
murals
in Rotunda of
Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri
Births
January 21
–
Đorđe Jovanović
,
Serbian
sculptor (died
1953
)
February 1
–
Jacques-Émile Blanche
, French painter (died
1942
)
April 9
–
Charles Holroyd
,
English
etcher (died
1917
)
June 19
–
Carl Seffner
, German portrait sculptor (died
1932
)
June 29
–
Pedro Figari
, Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer and politician (died
1938
)
July 18
–
Lucien Simon
, French painter and teacher (died
1945
)
August 9
–
J. W. Godward
, English
Neoclassical
painter (suicide
1922
)
August 17
–
Ludwig von Hofmann
, German Impressionist painter (died
1945
)
October 4
–
Frederic Remington
, American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer (died
1909
)
October 15
–
Nels N. Alling
, Danish-American sculptor (died
1955
)
October 30
–
Antoine Bourdelle
, French sculptor (died
1929
)
December 8
Aristide Maillol
, French sculptor, painter and printmaker (died
1944
)
Georges Méliès
, French filmmaker (died
1938
)
December 16
–
Antonio de La Gándara
, French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (died
1917
)
December 20
–
Ivana Kobilca
, Slovene realist painter (died
1926
)
date unknown
–
Kiyohara Tama
, Sicily-based Japanese painter (died
1939
)
Deaths
January 11
–
Karl Altmann
,
German
painter (born
1802
)
February 3
–
Ferdinand Deppe
, German
naturalist
,
explorer
and painter (born 1794)
February 7
–
Eduard Clemens Fechner
, German portrait painter and an etcher (born
1799
)
February 9
–
Francis Danby
,
Irish
-born landscape painter (born
1793
)
March 10
(
February 26
O.S.
) –
Taras Shevchenko
,
Ukrainian
poet and artist (born
1814
)
April 14
–
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
,
Japanese
artist of the
ukiyo-e
style of
woodblock prints
and painting (born
1797
)
May 21
–
Benjamin Paul Akers
,
American
sculptor (born
1825
)
July 15
–
Joanna Mary Boyce
,
English
portrait, genre and landscape painter (born
1831
)
August 17
–
Johann David Passavant
, German painter and art
curator
(born
1787
)
September 22
–
Alexei Yegorov
, Russian painter (born
1776
)
November 26
–
Wilhelm Hensel
, German painter, husband of
Fanny Hensel
(born
1794
)
December 24
–
Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort
, French oil and watercolor painter (born 1793)
[
6
]
December 25
-
Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout
, Belgian historical and genre subjects painter (born 1793)
date unknown
–
Andrew Hunt
, English landscape painter (born
1790
)
References
↑
Bradbury, Sue (2012).
Joanna, George and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship
. Ipswich: Boydell Press.
ISBN
9781843836179
.
↑
Émile Zola (2017).
The Sin of Abbé Mouret
. Oxford University Press. p.
33.
ISBN
978-0-19-873663-9
.
↑
William Evan Fredeman (1 January 2003).
Haunted Texts: Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism in Honour of William E. Fredeman
. University of Toronto Press. p.
126.
ISBN
978-0-8020-3662-9
.
↑
"William Morris".
Dictionary of National Biography
. 1901.
↑
Batchelor, John (2004).
"Scott, William Bell (1811–1890)"
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/24938
. Retrieved
2012-06-13
.
(subscription or
UK public library membership
required)
↑
John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913).
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
. C. Scribner's sons. p.
73
.
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