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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.

[edit] Works

• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Jean François Millet - The Gleaners
• Emily Mary Osborn - Nameless and Friendless

[edit] Births

• February 12 - Eugène Atget, photographer (d. 1927)
• July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (d. 1932)
• July 31 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (d. 1926)
• October 23 - Juan Luna, painter (d. 1899)
• November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (d. 1947)
• date unknown
  • Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (d. 1944)
  • William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (d. 1930)

[edit] Deaths

• May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (b. 1776)
• June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (b. 1779)
• October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor (b. 1814)
• October 14 - Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1788)
• December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (b. 1777)
• December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (b. 1800)
• date unknown - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (b. 1813)