1886 in art

Events from the year 1886 in art.

Events

• March – Vincent van Gogh moves to Paris.
• April – New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris.
• April 28 – Paul Cézanne marries his model and former lover Marie-Hortense Fiquet, despite having publicly stated that he has no feelings for her.
• May 15–June 15 – Eighth and last collective Impressionist exhibition in Paris at 1 rue Laffitte introduces Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte among other early examples of pontillism exhibited separately and includes a group of Degas nudes.
• June 30 – Royal Holloway College for women, established by patent medicine manufacturer Thomas Holloway (died 1883), opened by Queen Victoria at Egham in Surrey, England, incorporating a picture gallery for which the founder has acquired a collection of predominantly modern British works; this is the first art gallery in Britain intended primarily for viewing by women.
• July – Paul Gauguin joins the Pont-Aven School of artists for the summer.
• August 21–September 21 – Second exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris. Henri Rousseau exhibits for the first time and Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte causes the critic Félix Fénéon to describe the technique of pointillism and chromoluminarist style being developed by Seurat and Paul Signac as neo-impressionism.
• October 28 – Dedication of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his first photographic book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.
• Publication in French of Irish-born writer George Moore's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man describing bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionists.
• Publication of Émile Zola's novel L'Œuvre based on his friendship with Paul Cézanne.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (painting) – Charles Lebayle, Claudius Proclaimed Emperor

Works

• Ivan Aivazovsky – '
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Apodyterium
• William Bliss Baker
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• Under the Apple-Trees
• Emmanuel Benner – Mary Magdalene in the Desert
• Anna Bilińska – At the Seashore
• Frederick Brown – Hard Times
• Alexander Calandrelli – Equestrian statue of Frederick William IV (Berlin)
• Gustaf Cederström
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• William Merritt Chase – Hattie
• Emmeline Deane – '
• Edgar Degas
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• Lowes Cato Dickinson – The Lawn at Goodwood
• Alexander Doyle – Statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill
• Albert Dubois-Pillet
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• Paul Gauguin – Still Life with Profile of Laval
• Nikolai Ge – '
• Jean-Léon Gérôme
• Bonaparte Before the Sphinx
• The End of the Session
• James Gowans and John Stevenson Rhind – Brass Founders' Pillar
• James Guthrie – In the Orchard
• Margaret Bernadine Hall – Fantine
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – '
• Winslow Homer – Eight Bells
• Pierre-Georges Jeanniot – '
• Fernand Khnopff – '
• Benjamin Williams Leader – '
• Alexander Litovchenko – '
• Edwin Long – The Discovery of Moses
• John Everett Millais – Portia
• Claude Monet
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• Albert Joseph Moore – '
• Henry Moore – Mount's Bay
• Edvard Munch – The Sick Child
• Edward Poynter – Mary, Countess of Wemyss
• Jean-François Raffaëlli – '
• Cristóbal Rojas – '
• John Singer Sargent
• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
• Millet's Garden
• Georges Seurat – A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884 (Art Institute of Chicago)
• Henryk Siemiradzki – '
• Solomon Joseph Solomon – '
• Vincent van Gogh
• Le Moulin de la Galette (series)
• Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (approximate date)
• Vase with Poppies
• Georg von Rosen –
• George Frederick Watts – Hope
• Anders Zorn – Sommarnöje