1861 in art

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.
• April – Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals", 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.
• May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1861 opens at the National Gallery in London
• July 15 – English painter Joanna Mary Boyce dies aged 29 from complications following the birth of her third child, leaving her paintings ' and Undine uncompleted (the latter being finished by her widower Henry Tanworth Wells); Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a drawing of her on her deathbed.
• date unknown
• Paul Cézanne arrives in Paris to join his friend Émile Zola; while there he meets Camille Pissarro.
• 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).
• William Bell Scott concludes his series of murals of Northumbrian history at Wallington Hall with '.

Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Education of the Children of Clovis
• Richard Ansdell – The Hunted Slaves
• John Bell – Crimean War Memorial (London)
• Auguste Bonheur – ' ("The Way to Market")
• Joanna Mary Boyce
• '
• '
• Frederic Edwin Church
• The Icebergs
• '
• Edgar Degas - '
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Phryne before the Areopagus
• Gustave Achille Guillaumet – '
• George Elgar Hicks – Billingsgate Fish Market
• 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 – '
• John Morgan – '
• Joseph Noel Paton – '
• Henry Nelson O'Neil – The Parting Cheer
• Franz Xaver Reich – Mother Kinzig
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• '
• Lucrezia Borgia
• Rebecca Solomon
• The Arrest of a Deserter
• The Young Teacher
• Clarkson Stanfield – Stack Rock, County Antrim
• 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)
• December 25 - Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subjects painter (born 1793)
• date unknown – Andrew Hunt, English landscape painter (born 1790)

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