1853 in art
Events from the year 1853 in art.
Events
- 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London
- 15 May – Salon of 1853 opens in Paris
- 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
- Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sorauren
- John Bell – A Daughter of Eve
- Théodore Chassériau – Tepidarium
- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
- William Powell Frith – The Sleeping Model
- Francis Grant
- * Portrait of Hope Grant
- * Portrait of Lord John Russell
- Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- * The Apotheosis of Napoleon I
- * Princesse Albert de Broglie
- Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard
- 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 Song of Songs
- Clarkson Stanfield – The Last of the Crew
- Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń
- Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born
- 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
- Jules-Claude Ziegler – ''The Peace of Amiens''
Births
- February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor
- March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter
- March 30
- * Frank O'Meara, Irish painter
- * Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style
- May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator
- September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter
- October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer
- December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor
Deaths
- February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter
- April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter
- June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter
- July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher
- July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter
- November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter
- December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures date unknown
- * Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland
- * Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty