1863 in art

Works

Births

• January 11 – Mary Tannahill, American painter and artist in fabrics (died 1951)
• January 29 – Suzette Holten, née Skovgaard, Danish painter and ceramist (died 1937)
• April 3 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and designer, co-founder of the Art Nouveau movement (died 1957)
• May 17 – C. R. Ashbee, English designer (died 1942)
• June 12 – Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (died 1931)
• June 16 – Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (died 1898)
• June 21 – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, née Brodersen, Danish sculptor (died 1945)
• June 27 – Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1949)
• August 30 (August 18 Old Style) – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian color photographer (died 1944)
• September 6 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
• October 24 – Bertha Jaques, American etcher (died 1941)
• November 11 – Paul Signac, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1935)
• December 5 – George Pirie, Scottish painter (died 1946)
• December 12 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died 1944)

Deaths

• January 6 – Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
• January 17 – Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (born 1789)
• February 6 – Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1789)
• February 16 – Alvan Fisher, American pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (born 1792)
• February 20 – John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (born 1798)
• April 4 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (born 1790)
• June 5 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (born 1791)
• July 7 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (born 1786)
• July 12 – Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (born 1781)
• August 13 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (born 1798)
• September 19 – Joseph Nigg – Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (born 1782)
• December 4 – James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (born 1798)
• December 10 – Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (born 1797)
• December 27 – Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (born 1796)
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• Tommaso Benedetti, Austrian painter (born 1797)
• Per Krafft the Younger, Swedish portrait and historical painter (born 1777)
• Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (born 1778)
• Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (born 1794)