Events from the year 1863 in art.
Events
Exhibitions
Works
Births
- January 11 â Mary Tannahill, American painter and artist in fabrics (died 1951)
- January 29 â Suzette Holten, née Skovgaard, Danish painter and ceramist (died 1937)
- April 3 â Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and designer, co-founder of the Art Nouveau movement (died 1957)
- May 17 â C. R. Ashbee, English designer (died 1942)
- June 12 â Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (died 1931)
- June 16 â Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (died 1898)
- June 21 â Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, née Brodersen, Danish sculptor (died 1945)
- June 27 â Henri Beau, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1949)
- August 30 (August 18 Old Style) â Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian color photographer (died 1944)
- September 6 â Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
- October 24 â Bertha Jaques, American etcher (died 1941)
- November 11 â Paul Signac, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1935)
- December 5 â George Pirie, Scottish painter (died 1946)
- December 12 â Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 6 â Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
- January 17 â Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (born 1789)
- February 6 â Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1789)
- February 16 â Alvan Fisher, American pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (born 1792)
- February 20 â John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (born 1798)
- April 4 â Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (born 1790)
- June 5 â Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (born 1791)
- July 7 â William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (born 1786)
- July 12 â ÃÂtienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (born 1781)
- August 13 â Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (born 1798)
- September 19 â Joseph Nigg â Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (born 1782)
- December 4 â James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (born 1798)
- December 10 â Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and founder of the New York National Academy of Design (born 1797)
- December 27 â Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (born 1796)
- date unknown
- 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)