1860 in art

Events

February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.

December 30 – Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.

Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel

Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond

Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau

Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe

Works

Canova Lions

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday

Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork

Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)

William Dyce

The Man of Sorrows

Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858

Francesco Hayez

Massimo d'Azeglio

Self-portrait at the age of 69

Hiroshige II – Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū

William Holman Hunt – The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple

Daniel Huntington – Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire

Édouard Manet

Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

John Everett Millais – The Black Brunswicker

Clark Mills – Lieutenant General George Washington (equestrian statue, Washington, D.C.)

Rebecca Solomon – Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet

G. F. Watts – Alice Prinsep

The Veiled Nun

Births

January 29 – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (died 1941)

February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)

April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)

May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)

May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)

June 18 – Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)

August 5 – Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter (died 1942)

August 18 – Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1940)

September 7 – Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson), American folk artist (died 1961)

date unknown – Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)

Deaths

January 20 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)

February 16 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)

April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)

June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassicism painter (born 1779)

June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)

August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)

September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)

October 2 – Louis Hersent, French painter (born 1777)

October 3

Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (born 1780)

Rembrandt Peale, American artist (born 1778)

date unknown

Julien-Honoré-Germain d'Aubuisson, French portrait and miniature painter (born 1786)

Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (born 1801)

Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (born 1774)

Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)

Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (born 1784)

Juan Antonio Rivera, historical painter (born unknown)