title: 1871 in art
text: # 1871 in art
  
  Events from the year 1871 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * March – Edward Lear settles at his villa in Sanremo.
  * Spring – James McNeill Whistler publishes Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames and paints his first "moonlights" (later called "nocturnes") of the river.
  * March 18–May 28 – Paris Commune:
     * April 5 – Federation of Artists, organized by Gustave Courbet, holds its first meeting in Paris. Membership includes Jules Dalou, Honoré Daumier, André Gill and Eugène Pottier; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet are also members but do not actively participate.
     * May 16 – Napoleonic column in the Place Vendôme is pulled down according to a suggestion by Courbet, one of the events photographed by Bruno Braquehais.
     * May – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri photographs dead Communards.
     * c. May – James Tissot flees Paris for London.
  * June 14 – Camille Pissarro marries his mistress Julie Vellay in the London borough of Croydon and moves to Pontoise.
  * August 14 – Courbet is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine for his participation in the Paris Commune; during his time in prison he produces a series of still life paintings of fruit and flowers.
  * Summer – Claude Monet visits Zaandam.
  * December – Monet and his wife Camille move to Argenteuil.
  * William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti become tenants of Kelmscott Manor, which they share with Jane Morris.
  * Marie Spartali marries William James Stillman.
  * Edwin B. Crocker establishes the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Frederic Edwin Church – The Parthenon
  * Antonio Ciseri – Ecce Homo
  * Confederate Monument (Liberty, Mississippi)
  * Edgar Degas – Count Lepic and His Daughters
  * Friedrich Drake – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia)
  * Thomas Eakins – Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
  * Martin Johnson Heade – Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
  * Frank Holl – No Tidings from the Sea
  * Daniel Huntington – The Narrows, Lake George
  * Eastman Johnson – The Old Stagecoach
  * Ivan Kramskoi – The Mermaids
  * Édouard Manet
     * The Harbour at Bordeaux (E.G. Bührle collection, Zürich)
     * The Barricade (Civil War) (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest))
  * John Everett Millais – Victory O Lord!
  * Claude Monet – A Windmill at Zaandam
  * Albert Joseph Moore – Sea Gulls
  * Camille Pissarro – Lordship Lane Station, Upper Norwood
  * Vinnie Ream – Abraham Lincoln (marble, United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.)
  * Randolph Rogers – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Philadelphia)
  * Dante Gabriel Rossetti
     * Dante's Dream
     * Pandora
  * Amanda Sidwall – Self-portrait
  * George Blackall Simonds – The Falconer sculpture
  * Vasily Vereshchagin
     * At the city wall: "Let them in!"
     * The Apotheosis of War
  * Heinrich von Angeli – Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia
  * George Frederic Watts – Portrait of Frederic Leighton
  * Alfred Waud – A Home on the Mississippi
  * James McNeill Whistler
     * Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ("Whistler's Mother")
     * Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea
     * Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames
     * Variations in Pink And Grey – Chelsea
     * Variations in Violet and Green – Chelsea
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 27 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (died 1935)
  * March 2 – Albert Herter, American painter (died 1950)
  * March 9 – Granville Redmond, American painter (died 1935)
  * April 11 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (died 1956)
  * May ? – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, Irish-born engraver and portrait painter (died 1954)
  * May 1 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (died 1944)
  * May 11 – Mariano Fortuny, Spanish-born fashion designer (died 1949)
  * May 27 – Georges Rouault, French Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (died 1958)
  * June 12 – Victor David Brenner, Lithuanian-born American medalist, sculptor and engraver (died 1924)
  * July 24 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (died 1958)
  * August 22 – Émile André, French architect and designer (died 1933)
  * October 26 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-born photographer (died 1941)
  * date unknown – Peter Moog, German outsider artist (died 1930)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 1 – Alexander Munro, Scottish-born Pre-Raphaelite sculptor (born 1825)
  * January 14 – Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, Spanish painter (born 1841)
  * January 18 – Sir George Hayter, English painter, specialising in portraits (born 1792)
  * January 19 – Henri Regnault, French painter (born 1843)
  * February 8 – Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (born 1804)
  * February 20 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (born 1810)
  * February 26 – Sophia Hawthorne, American painter and illustrator (born 1809)
  * March 3 – Michael Thonet, German-Austrian furniture designer (born 1796)
  * March – Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (born 1802)
  * April 6 – Emma Eleonora Kendrick, English miniature painter (born 1788)
  * April 24 – Karl Girardet, French painter (born 1813)
  * June 9 – Anna Atkins, English botanist and pioneer photographer (born 1799)
  * June 19 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre arts (born 1797)
  * July 30 – Edwin Wilkins Field, English lawyer and painter (born 1804)
  * October 14 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (born 1797)
  * December 9 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (born 1820)
  * December 21 – Paul Guigou, French painter (born 1834)
  