1862 in art explained
Events from the year 1862 in art.
Events
Works
Births
- March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
- March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951)[5]
- April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (died 1938)
- June 14 – Herbert Dicksee, English painter (died 1942)
- July 10 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (died 1946)
- July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (died 1918)[6]
- July 29 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928)
- August 15 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (died 1957)
- September 12 – Carl Eytel, German American artist (died 1925)
- October 26 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (died 1944)
- November 25 – Katharine Adams, English bookbinder (died 1952)
- December 3 – Charles Grafly, American sculptor (died 1929)
Deaths
- January 3 – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor (born 1777)
- February 11 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overdose of laudanum (born 1829)[7]
- February 15 – Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
- March 18 – Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably painted Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (born 1785)
- March 19 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter (born 1789)
- May – Alexandre-François Caminade, French religious and portrait painter (born 1783)
- May 14 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (born 1787)
- July 7 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (born 1807)
- July 17 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (born 1780)
- August 7 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789)
- August 10 – Erin Corr, Irish engraver (born 1793)
- August 28 – Albrecht Adam, German painter of battles and horses (born 1786)
- September 20 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1792)
- October 29 – John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniaturist (born 1784)
- Undated – Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner (born 1789)
Notes and References
- Book: Halen, Widar. Christopher Dresser. Phaidon. 1990. 0-7148-2952-8. 34.
- Book: Broude, Norma. Norma Broude
. Norma Broude. 1987. The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven; London. Yale University Press. 0-300-03547-0. 96.
- Book: Building News and Architectural Review. 1862. The Proprietors. 100.
- Book: The United States Congress & Capitol: A Walking Tour Handbook. 2002. U.S. Senate. 56.
- Book: Faith Andrews Bedford. Frank Weston Benson. Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist. 1 January 1994. Random House Incorporated. 978-0-8478-1609-5. 16–21.
- Book: Allan S. Janik. Hans Veigl. Wittgenstein in Vienna: A biographical excursion through the city and its history. registration. 6 October 1998. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-211-83077-2. 149.
- Book: Jan Marsh. Elizabeth Siddall. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. 1991. Ruskin Gallery. 978-0-86321-135-5. 17.