1853 in art

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Events

• Baron Haussmann is selected to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853–1855, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

See also: Category:1853 paintings

• Théodore Chassériau - The Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Gustave Courbet - The Bathers (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
• Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
• John Martin - completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Plains of Heaven
• Gustave Moreau - The Death of Darius
• Rosa Bonheur - The Horse Fair, 1853–1855

Births

• March 14 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
• March 30 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
• May 13 - Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter of a Impressionism to expressive modernism style (d. 1934)
• May 28 - Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (d. 1919)

Deaths

• February 6 - August Kopisch, German poet and painter (b. 1799)
• March 27 - Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (b. 1780)
• July 15 - Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (b. 1766)
• July 22 - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, painter (b. 1783)
• date unknown
  • Maria Johanna Görtz - Swedish still life artist (b. 1783)
  • Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1778)