1860 in art
# 1860 in art

Events from the year 1860 in art.

## Events

* February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.
* May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.
* December 30 – Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
* Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

## Awards

* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel
* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau
* Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe

## Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women
* Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
* Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
* Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons
* Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)
* William Dyce
   * The Man of Sorrows
   * Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
* Francesco Hayez
   * Massimo d'Azeglio
   * Self-portrait at the age of 69
* Hiroshige II – Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū
* William Holman Hunt – The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
* Daniel Huntington – Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire
* Friedrich Kaulbach – Elisabet Ney
* Édouard Manet
   * Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
   * The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
* John Everett Millais – The Black Brunswicker
* Clark Mills – Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C.
* William Bell Scott – Ailsa Craig
* Rebecca Solomon – Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet
* Simeon Solomon – The Mother of Moses
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Robin of Modern Times
* G. F. Watts – Alice Prinsep
* Canova Lions (bronze castings)

## Births

* January 1
   * John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (died 1939)
   * Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (died 1938)
* January 29 – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter (died 1941)
* February 21 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (died 1952)
* February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter (died 1921)
* April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)
* May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter (died 1935)
* May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)
* June 1 – Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator (died 1920)
* June 18
   * George Frampton, English sculptor (died 1928)
   * Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)
* June 25 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist (died 1942)
* August 5 – Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter (died 1942)
* August 18 – Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1940)
* September 7 – Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson), American folk artist (died 1961)
* September 16 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, English portrait painter (died 1927)
* September 30 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (died 1949)
* October 4 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (died 1908)
* date unknown – Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)

## Deaths

* January 20 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)
* February 16 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)
* March 28 – Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (born 1774)
* April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)
* June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter (born 1779)
* June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (born 1778)
* August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)
* September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (born 1793)
* October 2 – Louis Hersent, French painter (born 1777)
* October 3
   * Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (born 1780)
   * Rembrandt Peale, American artist (born 1778)
* date unknown
   * Julien-Honoré-Germain d'Aubuisson, French portrait and miniature painter (born 1786)
   * Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (born 1801)
   * Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (born 1797)
   * Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (born 1784)
