1866 in art

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Events from the year 1866 in art.

Winslow Homer: Prisoners from the front, 1866, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oil on canvas. 24 x 38in

Events

• July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
• Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.

Works

Monet's painting of his future wife Camille Doncieux

Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie

See also: Category:1866 sculptures

• Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
• Carl Bloch – In a Roman Osteria
• Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus
• Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon
• Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs
  • The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty
  • Series of Life Sized Heads
• Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Gustave Courbet
  • L'Origine du monde
  • Le Sommeil
• Edgar Degas – Steeplechase – The Fallen Jockey
• Giovanni Fattori – La Rotonda di Palmieri
• Jean-Léon Gérôme
  • Cleopatra and Caesar
  • The Slave Market (approximate date)
• Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book
• David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed)
• Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Sir Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent (Wallace Collection, London; approximate date)
• August Malmström – Dancing Fairies
• Édouard Manet
  • The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland
• Claude Monet
  • Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
  • Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
  • Women in the Garden (begun)
• Albert Joseph Moore
  • The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed)
  • The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved
• Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove
• Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn
• Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács
• Frederick Walker – Wayfarers
• John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze)

Births

• January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
• June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929)
• June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935)
• July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939)
• July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925)
• August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
• October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)
• unknown date – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)

Deaths

• January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798)
• January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790)
• January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790)
• January 30 – Léon Bonvin, French painter an watercolorist (born 1834)
• March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814)
• April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792)
• April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814)
• April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812)
• April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792)
• April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802)
• June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795)
• June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786)
• August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838)
• September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798)
• November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804)
• December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796)
• date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798)