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