1876 in art

Sculptures

• Thomas Ball
• Emancipation Memorial
• Statue of Daniel Webster
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
• Bartholdi Fountain
• Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette
• Charles E. Cassell – Confederate Monument
• Carl Conrads – The American Volunteer
• Andrew Currie – Statue of Robert the Bruce, Stirling Castle
• Moses Jacob Ezekiel – Religious Liberty
• Fratelli Gianfranchi – Statue of George Washington
• Richard Saltonstall Greenough – John Winthrop
• Herman Kirn – Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain
• James Wilson Alexander MacDonald – Statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck
• Matthew Noble – Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square
• Louis Rebisso – Equestrian statue of James B. McPherson
• Amelia Robertson Hill – Statue of David Livingstone, Edinburgh
• Randolph Rogers – Statue of William H. Seward
• Horatio Stone – Statue of Edward Dickinson Baker
• Anne Whitney – Statue of Samuel Adams
• Unknown – Confederate Monument of Bowling Green
• Unknown – Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk

Births

• February 8 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter and draftswoman (died 1907)
• Ásgrímur Jónsson - Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (died 1958)
• March 23 – Muirhead Bone, Scottish-born etcher (died 1953)
• April 1 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (died 1923)
• April 11 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (died 1958)
• June 22 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (died 1975)
• July 12 – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (died 1988)
• July 17 – Melvin Ormond Hammond, Canadian photographer (died 1934)
• August 9 – Augustin Lesage, French outsider artist (died 1954)
• September 3 – Olive Edis, English photographer (died 1955)
• September 14 – César Klein, German painter and designer (died 1954)
• November 4 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (died 1953)
• November 17 – August Sander, German photographer (died 1964)
• December 23 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (died 1923).
• date unknown – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock print maker (died 1950)

Deaths

• January 22 – Sir George Harvey, Scottish painter (born 1806)
• February 29
• Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (born 1798)
• Jozef Van Lerius, Belgian romantic-historical painter (born 1823)
• March 13 – Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (born 1800)
• April 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor of funerary monuments (born 1798)
• June 11 – Giovanni Battista Cassevari, Italian miniature portrait painter (born 1789)
• August 15 – John Frederick Lewis, English painter (born 1805)
• August 27 – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (born 1820)
• September 17 – Franz Nadorp, German painter primarily working and living in Rome (born 1794)
• October 21 – UroÅ¡ Knežević, Serbian painter (born 1811)
• November 10 – Édouard Traviès, French painter (born 1809)
• November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, French painter (born 1807)
• date unknown – Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (born 1801)

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