1873 in art
# 1873 in art

Events from the year 1873 in art.

## Events

* Early – Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is arrested in a public urinal in London and convicted and fined for gross indecency.
* May – Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie.
* World exhibition in Vienna.
* Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently.
* The collection forming the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is moved to the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia.
* New Accademia delle Arti del Disegno established in Florence.
* Leslie Ward, as "Spy", begins producing caricatures for the British magazine Vanity Fair.
* Michelangelo's statue of David is removed from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to the Galleria dell'Accademia.

## Works

* William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr
* Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins (original watercolour version)
* Alexandre Cabanel – La Comtesse de Keller
* Gustave Caillebotte – Nude woman lying on a couch
* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Letter From Daddy
* Walter Crane – Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome
* Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Last Cartridges (Les dernières cartouches)
* Edgar Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans
* Hans Gude – Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten
* Winslow Homer – The Boat Builders
* William Holman Hunt – The Shadow of Death
* Rudolf Koller – Gotthardpost
* Ivan Kramskoi
   * Ivan Shishkin
   * Leo Tolstoy
* Édouard Manet
   * Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
   * The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
* Jan Matejko – Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God
* Pál Szinyei Merse – Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest)
* Claude Monet
   * The Artist's House at Argenteuil
   * Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
   * Poppies Blooming
* Albert Joseph Moore – Follow-my-Leader
* Camille Pissarro – Self-portrait
* Ilya Repin – Barge Haulers on the Volga
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
* Heinrich Strack – Berlin Victory Column
* James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

## Births

* January 28 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide 1928)
* February 14 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (died 1942)
* March 13 – Léon Delagrange, French sculptor and aviator (died 1910)
* April 3 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (died 1918)
* April 4 – Élie Faure, French art historian (died 1937)
* April 24 – André Bauchant, French painter (died 1958)
* May 10 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 1954)
* July 6 – Ethel Sands, American-born painter (died 1962)
* July 7 – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (died 1942)
* October 12 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (died 1915)
* December 5 – Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer was born in England (died 1947)
* date unknown – Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (died 1961)
* approximate date – Olowe of Ise, Yoruba wood sculptor (died c. 1938)

## Deaths

* March 25 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (born 1810)
* April 17 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (born 1783)
* April 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1809)
* May 13 – Konstantin Danil, renowned Serbian painter (born 1798)
* May 19 – Charles Lucy, English painter (born 1814)
* July 8 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (born 1805)
* October 2 – Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (born 1881)
* October 9 – John Evan Thomas, Welsh sculptor (born 1810)
* November 25 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (born 1792)
* November 27 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English historical, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (born 1793)
* December 9 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1791)
* date unknown
   * Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in both the Biedermeier and Nazarene movement (born 1808)
   * Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (born 1813)
   * Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver (born 1785)
