1870 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet and Pissarro flee to London.
• Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.

Paintings

• Henri Fantin-Latour - A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Édouard Manet - La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• John Everett Millais - The Boyhood of Raleigh (Tate Britain, London)
• Dmitri Sinodi-Popov - An Old Greek

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal

Births

• January 11 - Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor (d. 1945)
• March 13 - William Glackens, painter (d. 1938)
• June 22 - Dattilo Rubbo, painter and art teacher (d. 1955)
• July 21 - Emil Orlik, painter and lithographer (d. 1932)
• July 25 - Maxfield Parrish, painter and illustrator (d. 1966)
• November 18 - Franz Metzner, sculptor (d. 1919)
• December 23 - John Marin, painter (d. 1953)
• date unknown - Arthur Diehl, landscape painter (d. 1929)

Deaths

• January 17 - Alexander Anderson (b. 1775)
• April 25 - Daniel Maclise, painter (b. 1806)
• May 17 - David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (b. 1802)
• July 13 - Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (b. 1792)
• November 28 - Frédéric Bazille, Impressionist painter (b. 1841) (killed in action)
• December 9
  • Max Emanuel Ainmiller, glass painter (b. 1807)
  • Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast (b. 1799)
• date unknown
  • Johannes Flintoe - Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (b. 1787)
  • Achille Leonardi, Italian artist (b. 1800)