1863 in art

Events

• March - American-born painter James McNeill Whistler settles close to the River Thames in Chelsea, London, where he will live for most of the rest of his life.
• Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography.

Exhibitions

• May 17 - Opening of first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés in Paris (in which Manet exhibits Le déjeuner sur l'herbe and two other paintings; Whistler exhibits Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl and Cézanne first exhibits), and coining of the term avant-garde.

Manet - Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Works

• Peter Nicolai Arbo - Horse Herd on the High Mountains
• Thomas Jones Barker - 'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) (approximate date)
• Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
• David Gilmour Blythe
  • Libby Prison
  • Man Eating in a Field
• Alexey Bogolyubov - Easter procession in Yaroslavl
• Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus
• Paul Cézanne - The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
• Charles Camille Chazal - Institution of the Eucharist
• François-Claudius Compte-Calix - Vieil Ami
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Work (Musée de Picardie, Amiens)
• Vilhelm Kyhn - Efter solnedgang i udkanten af en landsby ("After Sunset on the Outskirts of a Village")
• Édouard Manet
  • Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass" or "The Picnic") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Olympia (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Robert Braithwaite Martineau - The Last Chapter
• John Everett Millais - My First Sermon
• Albert Joseph Moore - Wall decorations at Coombe Abbey
• Vincent Pilz - Pegasus (pair of bronzes) (approximate date)
• Eugene von Guerard - North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko
• Frederick Walker - The Lost Path
• James McNeill Whistler - Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach

Births

• April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, co-founder of the Art Nouveau movement (died 1957)
• June 12 - Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (died 1931)
• June 16 - Arturo Michelena, painter (died 1898)
• August 30 (August 18 Old Style) - Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian color photographer (died 1944)
• September 6 - Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
• October 24 - Bertha Jaques, American etcher (died 1941)
• November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter (died 1935)
• December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died 1944)

Deaths

• January 6 - Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1787)
• January 17 - Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (born 1789)
• February 6 - Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1789)
• February 16 - Alvan Fisher, United States's pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (born 1792)
• February 20 - John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (born 1798)
• April 4 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, painter and engraver (born 1790)
• June 5 - Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (born 1791)
• July 7 - William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (born 1786)
• July 12 - Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (born 1781)
• August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (born 1798)
• September 19 - Joseph Nigg - Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (born 1782)
• December 4 - James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (born 1798)
• December 10 - Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (born 1797)
• date unknown
  • Tommaso Benedetti, Italian painter (born 1797)
  • John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes (born 1771)
  • Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (born 1796)
  • Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (born 1778)
  • Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (born 1794)