1868 in art

Events

Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris.

Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established.

Works

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends

Frédéric Bazille

Self-portrait

View of the Village

Albert Bierstadt

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

In the Sierras

Tyrolean Landscape

Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park (approximate date)

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture)

Lowes Cato Dickinson – Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886

Lot Flannery – Abraham Lincoln (marble, Washington, D.C.)

Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Execution of Marshal Ney

George P. A. Healy – The Peacemakers

Holman Hunt – Isabella and the Pot of Basil (large and small versions)

Charles-Auguste Lebourg – The Child and the Grasshopper (marble)

Édouard Manet

The Balcony

Luncheon in the Studio (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)

Mme. Manet at the Piano (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Portrait d’Émile Zola (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Portrait of Théodore Duret (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)

John Everett Millais – Vanessa

Claude Monet – On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt

Albert Joseph Moore

Azaleas

A Greek Play (tempera panel for proscenium of Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, London)

Vasily Perov – At the Railroad

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne

In the Summer (The Bohemian girl)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blue Silk Dress (Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool))

Lady Lilith (original version)

Pia de' Tolomei

Frederick Sandys – Medea

James Tissot – Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale

Frederick Walker – The Vagrants

Births

April 6 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (died 1919)

April 12 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker (died 1932)

April 21 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter (suicide 1932)

April 28 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (died 1941)

June 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (died 1932)

June 18 – Georges Lacombe, French sculptor and painter (died 1916)

October 8

Fidus (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener), German graphic designer (died 1948)

Max Slevogt, German artist (died 1932)

November 11 – Édouard Vuillard, French painter (died 1940)

November 23 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (died 1953)

Deaths

January 28 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (born 1805)

February 14 – Emil Bærentzen, Danish portrait painter and lithographer (born 1799)

February 21 – Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (born 1836)

February 26 – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1810)

March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (born 1781/1784)

March 10 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (born 1798)

March 29 – Felix Slade, English lawyer, art collector and founder of the Slade School of Art (born 1788)

May 2 – James Wilson Carmichael, English marine painter (born 1800)

May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, German American painter (born 1816)

August 10

George Cattermole, English illustrator and watercolourist (born 1800)

Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (born 1835)

September 13 – Richard Rothwell, Irish portrait and genre painter (born 1800)

September 13 - Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist (born 1793)

September 27 – August Piepenhagen, German painter active in Bohemia (born 1791)

October 10 – François-Édouard Picot, French historic painter (born 1786)

November 23

Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician (born 1783)

Charles Méryon, French etcher (born 1821)

December 1 – John Edward Carew, Irish sculptor (born 1785)

date unknown

Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1782)

Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (born 1793)