1860 in art
Events from the year 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