1859 in art
# 1859 in art

Events from the year 1859 in art.

## Events

* March 22 – Scottish National Gallery opens to the public in Edinburgh in neoclassical premises designed by W. H. Playfair.
* April 26 – William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden. Edward Burne-Jones presents them with a self-painted wardrobe.
* Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors.
* While attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, in Paris, Pissarro becomes friends with a number of younger artists also choosing to paint in a more realistic style, including Monet, Guillaumin and Cézanne.
* This year's Paris Salon admits photographs.
* The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army.

## Works

* Peter Nicolai Arbo – Saint Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad
* Thomas Jones Barker – The Relief of Lucknow
* Albert Bierstadt – some dates approximate
   * Bernese Alps
   * Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies
   * The Wolf River, Kansas
* Philip Hermogenes Calderon – French Peasants Finding Their Stolen Child
* Frederic E. Church – The Heart of the Andes
* Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg – Monument to Nicholas I (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse
* Thomas Couture – Daydreams
* Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (first version)
* Robert S. Duncanson – Landscape with Rainbow
* William Dyce – Beatrice (Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine)
* William Maw Egley – Omnibus Life in London
* Henri Fantin-Latour – Self-portrait
* Francesco Hayez – The Kiss, an expression of Italian Romanticism
* James Clarke Hook
   * The Brook
   * Luff, Boy!
* Arthur Hughes – The Long Engagement
* Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Gallic Victim (marble)
* Édouard Manet – The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
* John Everett Millais – The Vale of Rest
* Jean-François Millet – The Angelus (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Elisabet Ney – Arthur Schopenhauer (sculpture)
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Bocca Baciata, the first of his portraits of single female figures (Fanny Cornforth)
* John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Thoughts of the Past
* James McNeill Whistler – Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge

## Births

* January 28 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (died 1948)
* May 25 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait, and genre painter (died 1944)
* June 16 – Paja Jovanović, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters, with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić (died 1957)
* June 17 – Walter Osborne, Irish Impressionist painter (died 1903)
* August 22 – John Henry Dearle, English textile designer (died 1932)
* October 17 – Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter (died 1935)
* November 10 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (died 1923)
* November 27 – William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (died 1886)
* December 2 – Georges-Pierre Seurat, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1891)
* December 25 – Anna Palm de Rosa, Swedish-born painter (died 1924)
* December 30 – Henrietta Rae, English painter (died 1928)

## Deaths

* February 8 – William Edward West, American portrait painter (born 1788)
* March 3 – Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1778)
* March 24 – James Stark, English painter (born 1794)
* April 22 – Edward Villiers Rippingille, English painter (born c.1790)
* May 5 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre works painter (born 1794)
* May 8 – José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1781)
* June 7 – David Cox, English landscape painter (born 1783)
* June 20 – Hans Michelsen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1789)
* August 3 – Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (born 1801)
* August 27 – Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (born 1788)
* October 21 – William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (born 1774)
* November 13 - Ernesta Legnani Bisi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1788)
* November 17 – James Ward, English animal painter and engraver (born 1769)
* December 17 – Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (born 1794)
* date unknown – John Bacon, English sculptor (born 1777)
