Events from the year 1869 in art.
January 31 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Wine Shop
Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrie
Frédéric Bazille – Scène d'été
Knud Bergslien – Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child
Albert Bierstadt – Emigrants Crossing the Plains
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Knitting Girl
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
Albert Charles Challen – Mary Seacole
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Femme Lisant (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Gustave Courbet – The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Edgar Degas – Interior (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Lowes Cato Dickinson – Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Gustave Doré – Andromeda
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
Luke Fildes – Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic)
George P. A. Healy – Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Huntington – Sowing the Word
Frederick Richard Lee – Morning in the Meadows
Frederic Leighton – Daedalus and Icarus
Édouard Manet
The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection)
The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Kunsthalle Mannheim)
Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
Claude Monet
Bathers at La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère
The Magpie
Albert Joseph Moore
The Quartette
A Venus
Gustave Moreau – Europa and the Bull
Mihály Munkácsy – Last Day of a Condemned Man
Erskine Nicol – A Nip Against the Cold
Edward Poynter – Saint George for England (mosaic for Palace of Westminster)
Thomas Thornycroft – Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England)
W. L. Wyllie – Dawn after a Storm
January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
March 19 – Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
April 6
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
April 11 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
date unknown – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)
January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
July 4 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
December 29 – William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
date unknown
Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)
François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
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