1860 in art

Events

• February 27 – Matthew Brady takes the first of his photographs of Abraham Lincoln.
• February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London.
• May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris.
• December 30 – Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych holds its first meeting in Warsaw.
• Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe

Works

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Bargain: Brabant Women
• Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – Charlotte Corday
• Edward Burne-Jones – Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork
• Paul Cézanne - The Four Seasons
• William Dyce
• * The Man of Sorrows
• * Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858
• Francesco Hayez
• * Massimo d'Azeglio
• * Self-portrait at the age of 69
• Hiroshige II – Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū
• William Holman Hunt – The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
• Daniel Huntington – Chocorua Peak, New Hampshire
• Édouard Manet
• * Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet
• * The Spanish Singer
• John Everett Millais – The Black Brunswicker
• Clark Mills – Equestrian statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C.
• John Phillip – The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal
• William Bell Scott – Ailsa Craig
• Rebecca Solomon – Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet
• Simeon Solomon – The Mother of Moses
• John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Robin of Modern Times
• G. F. Watts – Alice Prinsep
• ''Canova Lions''

Births

• January 1
• *John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter
• *Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter
• January 29 – William Jacob Baer, American miniature painter
• February 21 – Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor
• February 27 – Vardges Sureniants, Armenian painter
• April 6 – René Lalique, French glass designer
• May 30 – Archibald Thorburn, Scottish-born wildlife painter
• May 31 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter
• June 1 – Hugh Thomson, Irish-born illustrator
• June 18
• *George Frampton, English sculptor
• *Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter
• June 25 – Sutherland Macdonald, English tattoo artist
• August 5 – Louis Wain, English cat portrait painter
• August 18 – Iso Rae, Australian Impressionist painter
• September 7 – Grandma Moses, American folk artist
• September 16 – Solomon Joseph Solomon, English portrait painter
• September 30 – Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter
• October 4 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator date unknown – Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist

Deaths

• January 20 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits
• February 16 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer
• March 28 – Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter
• April 6 – Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer
• April 28 – Jakob Guttmann, sculptor
• June 15 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassical historical painter
• June 20 – Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter
• August 22 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter
• September 21 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer
• October 2 – Louis Hersent, French painter
• October 3
• *Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter
• *Rembrandt Peale, American artist date unknown
• * Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner
• * Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter