1859 in art
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[edit] Events
- April 26 - William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden.
- 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.
- The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army.
[edit] Awards
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[edit] Works
See also: Category:1859 paintings
- Frederic E. Church - The Heart of the Andes
- Francesco Hayez - The Kiss. An expression of Italian Romanticism.
- Arthur Hughes - The Long Engagement
- Édouard Manet - The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
- Jean François Millet - The Angelus (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
[edit] Births
- October 17 - Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter (d. 1935)
- November 10 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss/French painter (d. 1923)
- December 2 - Georges-Pierre Seurat, French post-Impressionist painter (d. 1891)
- December 30 - Henrietta Rae, English painter (d. 1928)
- date unknown - William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (d. 1886)
[edit] Deaths
- March 24 - James Stark, English painter (b. 1794)
- May 5 - Charles Robert Leslie, English genre works painter (b. 1794)
- May 8 - José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (b. 1781)
- June 7 - David Cox, English landscape painter (b. 1783)
- August 3 - Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (b. 1801)
- November 17 - James Ward, animal painter and engraver (b. 1769)
- Also:
- Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (b. 1788)
- William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (b. 1774)
