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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• July 21 - Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place
• Ford Madox Brown completes his painting, Work, after thirteen years.

[edit] Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - An Egyptian at his Doorway
• Gustave Courbet - Portrait of Countess Karoly
• Edgar Degas - Medieval War Scene
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Prayer
• Henri Harpignies - Les Corbeaux
• Édouard Manet
  • Angélina (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Bull-Fighting Scene (Private collection)
  • The Mocking of Christ (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
• Gustave Moreau - Orpheus
• Alfred Sisley - Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud

[edit] Births

• January 19 - Valentin Serov, painter (d. 1911)
• April 26 - Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (d. 1931)
• May 5 - Albert Aurier, poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (d. 1892)
• June 25 - Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (d. 1929)
• September 23 - Suzanne Valadon, painter (d. 1938)
• December 28 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
• date unknown - Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (d. 1929)

[edit] Deaths

• April 21 - Josef Navrátil, Bohemian painter of murals, and frescoes (b. 1798)
• June 18 - Antoine Wiertz, painter (b. 1806)
• August 14 - Fitz Hugh Lane, Luminist painter (b. 1804)
• August 23 - Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1793)
• September 17 - John Neagle - American painter of portraits (b. 1796)
• September 29 - François Joseph Heim, painter (b. 1787)
• December 24 - Charles Lock Eastlake, painter and art collector (b. 1793)
• date unknown
  • Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (b. 1797)
  • John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker, and coachman in Victorian England (b. 1795)
  • Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (b. 1786)
  • Ammi Phillips, American painter (b. 1788)
  • Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor, and inventor (b. 1794)