1869 in art
# 1869 in art

Events from the year 1869 in art.

## Events

* January 30 – New British magazine Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
* 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 by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.

## Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Wine Shop
* Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrie
* Thomas Armstrong – The Hay Field
* Frédéric Bazille – Scène d'été
* Knud Bergslien – Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child
* Albert Bierstadt
   * Emigrants Crossing the Plains
   * Mount Hood
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau
   * The Elder Sister
   * The Knitting Girl
* Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
* Albert Charles Challen – Mary Seacole
* 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
* Gustave Doré – Andromeda
* Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
* Luke Fildes – Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic)
* Atkinson Grimshaw – Autumn Glory: The Old Mill
* George P. A. Healy – Abraham Lincoln
* Jean-Jacques Henner – Woman on a Black Divan
* 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
   * Bathers at La Grenouillère
   * La Grenouillère
   * The Magpie
* 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 Stuart Smith – The Pipe of Freedom
* 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, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
* February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
* February 10 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
* March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
* March 19 – Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
* April 6
   * Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
   * Louis Raemaekers, Dutch 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 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
* June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
* July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
* October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
* October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
* November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
* December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
* December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
* December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
* date unknown – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)

## Deaths

* January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
* June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
* July 4
   * Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
   * Édouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
* July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
* August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
* August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
* October 12 – François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
* November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
* December – Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
* December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "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)
