title: 1853 in art
text: # 1853 in art
  
  Events from the year 1853 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Ivan Aivazovsky
     * Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop
     * The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle)
  * Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sobrauren
  * John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
  * Théodore Chassériau – The Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  * Gustave Courbet – The Bathers (Les Baigneuses, Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
  * Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
  * Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience
  * Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
     * The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
     * Princesse Albert de Broglie
  * Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
  * John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Plains of Heaven
  * John Everett Millais
     * The Order of Release
     * The Proscribed Royalist, 1651
  * Gustave Moreau – The Death of Darius
  * Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
  * Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
  * Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
     * Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight
     * Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)
  * March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
  * March 30
     * Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)
     * Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)
  * May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
  * May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
  * September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
  * October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927)
  * December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
  * March 27 – Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (born 1780)
  * April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
  * June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
  * July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
  * July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
  * November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)
  * December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
  * date unknown
     * Maria Johanna Görtz – Swedish still life artist (born 1783)
     * Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
     * Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)
  