1869 in art

Events

• 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 in by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.

Works

Monet - La Grenouillère

• 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
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Knitting Girl
• Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - The Dance (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
• 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
• 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
  • La Grenouillère
  • Bathers at La Grenouillère
• 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

Births

• January 15 - Stanisław Wyspiański, playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
• February 7 - Xavier Martinez, painter (died 1943)
• March 1 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (died 1959)
• March 19 - Józef Mehoffer, painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
• April 6
  • Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (died 1937)
  • Louis Raemaekers, painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
• June 27 - Kate Carew, caricaturist (died 1961)
• October 22 - August Gaul, sculptor (died 1922)
• December 1 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
• December 18 - Edward Willis Redfield, landscape painter (died 1965)
• December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter (died 1954)
• date unknown - William Lee Hankey, painter and illustrator (died 1952)

Deaths

• June 10 - Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (born 1800)
• July 4 - Johann Friedrich Overbeck, painter (born 1789)
• July 10 - Jan Wnęk, carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
• August - Baron Leys, painter (born 1815)
• August 8 - Roger Fenton, photographer (born 1819)
• December 8 - Samuel Jackson, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
• December 29 - William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
• date unknown
  • Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)
  • William Hamlin, American engraver and the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
  • Paul Huet, painter (born 1803)
  • François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)