1879 in art
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Events
- Ford Madox Brown begins painting the The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
- Chicago Academy of Fine Arts established.
- Guimet Museum of Asian art established in Lyon, France.
- Museum of Fine Arts Berne established in Switzerland.
- Kate Greenaway's first book, with her own colour illustrations, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, is published in London.
Works
- Michael Ancher – Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point)
- Albert Fitch Bellows – The Parsonage
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Birth of Venus
- William Burges - Golden Bed
- Edward Burne-Jones – The Annunciation
- Edgar Degas
- Gustave Achille Guillaumet – Laghouat in the Algerian Sahara
- Ivan Kramskoi – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Édouard Manet
- Albert Joseph Moore – Topaz
- Vasily Perov – Pugachev's Judgement
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Dreamer
- John Singer Sargent – Portrait of Carolus-Duran
- Charlotte Schreiber – The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot)
- James Tissot – Mrs. Newton with a Parasol (approximate date)
Births
- January 13 – William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (died 1961)
- March 27 – Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator (died 1973)
- July 26 – Maria Bal, Polish model (died 1955)
- September 23 – Charles Camoin, painter (died 1965)
- October 22 – Sir Matthew Smith, painter (died 1959)
- December 18 – Paul Klee, painter (died 1940)
Deaths
- January 26 – Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer (born 1815)
- February 10 – Honoré Daumier, painter, sculptor and caricaturist (born 1808)
- March 21 - Valentine Bartholomew, English flower painter (born 1799)
- March 27 – Hércules Florence, painter and pioneer photographer (born 1817)
- March 30 – Thomas Couture, painter and art teacher (born 1815)
- May 8 – Henry Collen, English royal miniature portrait painter (born 1797)
- July 7 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (born 1811)
- July 17 – Maurycy Gottlieb, painter (born 1804)
- August 3 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (born 1793)
- September 5 – Camille Doncieux, first wife and model of Claude Monet (born 1847)
- September 6 – Amédée de Noé, caricaturist (born 1818)
- September 8 – William Morris Hunt, painter (born 1824)
- November 2 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (born 1798)
- November 18 – André Giroux, painter and photographer (born 1801)
- December 1 – Franz Ittenbach, religious painter (born 1813)
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