1869 in art explained
Events from the year 1869 in art.
Events
Works
Births
- January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
- February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
- February 10 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
- March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
- March 19 – Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
- April 6
- April 11 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
- June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
- June 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
- June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
- July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
- October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
- October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
- November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
- December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
- December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
- December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
- date unknown – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)
Deaths
- January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
- June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
- July 4
- July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
- August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
- August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
- October 12 – François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
- November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
- December – Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
- December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
- December 29 – William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
- date unknown
