1859 in art

Events from the year 1859 in art.

Events

• March 22 – Scottish National Gallery opens to the public in Edinburgh in neoclassical premises designed by W. H. Playfair.
• April 26 – William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden. Edward Burne-Jones presents them with a self-painted wardrobe.
• May 2 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1859 opens in London.
• The Neue Pinakothek is completed in Munich, intended to be the first museum in Europe for the exhibition of contemporary painting.
• Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors.
• While attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, in Paris, Pissarro becomes friends with a number of younger artists also choosing to paint in a more realistic style, including Monet, Guillaumin and Cézanne.
• Photography is admitted to the Paris Salon for the first time.
• The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army.

Works

• Peter Nicolai Arbo – '
• Thomas Jones Barker – '
• Albert Bierstadt – some dates approximate
• Bernese Alps
• Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies
• The Wolf River, Kansas
• Philip Hermogenes Calderon – '
• Frederic E. Church – The Heart of the Andes
• Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg – Monument to Nicholas I (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse
• Thomas Couture – '
• Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (first version)
• Robert S. Duncanson – Landscape with Rainbow
• William Dyce – (Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine)
• William Maw Egley – Omnibus Life in London
• Henri Fantin-Latour – '
• Francesco Hayez – The Kiss, an expression of Italian Romanticism
• George Elgar Hicks – Dividend Day at the Bank of England
• James Clarke Hook
• '
• Luff, Boy!
• Arthur Hughes – The Long Engagement
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Gallic Victim (marble)
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre – King Candaules
• Édouard Manet – The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
• John Everett Millais – The Vale of Rest
• Jean-François Millet – The Angelus (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Elisabet Ney – Arthur Schopenhauer (sculpture)
• Henry Nelson O'Neil – Home Again
• David Roberts – Ruins of the Roman Forum
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Bocca Baciata, the first of his portraits of single female figures (Fanny Cornforth)
• John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Thoughts of the Past
• James McNeill Whistler – '
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert