1869 in art
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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
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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
- Albert Bierstadt – Emigrants Crossing the Plains
- 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
- Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
- 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)
- April 11 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
- June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
- June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
- July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
- 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
- Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
- 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)