Events from the year 1866 in art.
July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.
Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus
Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon
Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs
The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty
Series of Life Sized Heads
Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Gustave Courbet
L'Origine du monde
Le Sommeil
Edgar Degas – Steeplechase – The Fallen Jockey
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Cleopatra and Caesar
The Slave Market (approximate date)
Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book
David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed)
Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Sir Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent (Wallace Collection, London; approximate date)
Édouard Manet
The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland
Claude Monet
Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
Women in the Garden (begun)
Albert Joseph Moore
The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed)
The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved
Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove
Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn
Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács
Frederick Walker – Wayfarers
John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze)
January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929)
June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935)
July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939)
July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925)
August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)
unknown date – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)
January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798)
January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790)
January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790)
March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814)
April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792)
April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814)
April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812)
April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792)
April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802)
June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795)
June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786)
August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838)
September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798)
November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804)
December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796)
date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798)
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