1853 in art
# 1853 in art

Events from the year 1853 in art.

## Events

* Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

## Works

* Ivan Aivazovsky
   * Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop
   * The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle)
* Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sobrauren
* John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
* Théodore Chassériau – The Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Gustave Courbet – The Bathers (Les Baigneuses, Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
* Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
* Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience
* Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
   * The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
   * Princesse Albert de Broglie
* Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
* John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Plains of Heaven
* John Everett Millais
   * The Order of Release
   * The Proscribed Royalist, 1651
* Gustave Moreau – The Death of Darius
* Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
* Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
* Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
   * Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight
   * Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon

## Births

* February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)
* March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
* March 30
   * Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)
   * Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)
* May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
* May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
* September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
* October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927)
* December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)

## Deaths

* February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
* March 27 – Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (born 1780)
* April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
* June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
* July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
* July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
* November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)
* December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
* date unknown
   * Maria Johanna Görtz – Swedish still life artist (born 1783)
   * Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
   * Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)
