1853 in art

Births

• February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)
• March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
• March 30
• Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)
• Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)
• 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)
• December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)

Deaths

• February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
• April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
• 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)
• 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)

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