1886 in art

Events

• April - New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris.
• William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design in Greenwich Village.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his first photographic book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.

Awards

Works

• Albert Bierstadt - Storm in the Rocky Mountains
• William Merritt Chase - Hattie
• Edgar Degas - The Tub (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Georges-Pierre Seurat - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte completed (Art Institute of Chicago)
• George Frederick Watts - Hope

Births

• 1 March - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (d.1980).
• 19 April - Hermine David, French painter (d.1970).
• 1 September - Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (d.1973).
• 16 September - Jean Arp, artist and writer (d.1966).
• 8 December - Diego Rivera, painter and muralist (d.1957).

Deaths

• January 7 - Richard Dadd, painter (b. 1817)
• May 19 - Arthur Quartley - American painter (b. 1839)
• June 29 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (b. 1824)
• July 21 - Karl von Piloty, painter (b. 1826)
• August 25 - Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author (b. 1823)
• September 17 - Asher Brown Durand, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1796)
• September 23 - Thomas Webster, painter (b. 1800)
• November 20 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• date unknown - Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (b.1804)