title: 1869 in art
text: # 1869 in art
  
  Events from the year 1869 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 30 – New British magazine Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
  * January 31 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
  * July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
  * December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Wine Shop
  * Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrie
  * Thomas Armstrong – The Hay Field
  * Frédéric Bazille – Scène d'été
  * Knud Bergslien – Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child
  * Albert Bierstadt
     * Emigrants Crossing the Plains
     * Mount Hood
  * William-Adolphe Bouguereau
     * The Elder Sister
     * The Knitting Girl
  * Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris)
  * Albert Charles Challen – Mary Seacole
  * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Femme Lisant (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  * Gustave Courbet – The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  * Edgar Degas – Interior (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  * Lowes Cato Dickinson – Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
  * Gustave Doré – Andromeda
  * Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793
  * Luke Fildes – Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic)
  * Atkinson Grimshaw – Autumn Glory: The Old Mill
  * George P. A. Healy – Abraham Lincoln
  * Jean-Jacques Henner – Woman on a Black Divan
  * Daniel Huntington – Sowing the Word
  * Frederick Richard Lee – Morning in the Meadows
  * Frederic Leighton – Daedalus and Icarus
  * Édouard Manet
     * The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
     * Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection)
     * The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
     * The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Kunsthalle Mannheim)
     * Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
     * The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
     * Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
  * Claude Monet
     * Bathers at La Grenouillère
     * La Grenouillère
     * The Magpie
  * Albert Joseph Moore
     * The Quartette
     * A Venus
  * Gustave Moreau – Europa and the Bull
  * Mihály Munkácsy – Last Day of a Condemned Man
  * Erskine Nicol – A Nip Against the Cold
  * Edward Poynter – Saint George for England (mosaic for Palace of Westminster)
  * Thomas Stuart Smith – The Pipe of Freedom
  * Thomas Thornycroft – Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England)
  * W. L. Wyllie – Dawn after a Storm
  
  ## 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
     * Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
     * Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
  * 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
     * Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
     * Édouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
  * 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
     * Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
     * Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)
  