1861 in art

Events from the year 1861 in art.

Events

February – Hilda Sjölin opens a photography studio in Malmö, making her one of the first known Swedish female professional photographers.
April – Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals", set up in London by William Morris, P. P. Marshall, Charles Faulkner, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb to craft Pre-Raphaelite-inspired furnishings.
May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1861 opens at the National Gallery in London
July 15 – English painter Joanna Mary Boyce dies aged 29 from complications following the birth of her third child, leaving her paintings Bird of God and Undine uncompleted ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a drawing of her on her deathbed.
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*Paul Cézanne arrives in Paris to join his friend Émile Zola; while there he meets Camille Pissarro.
*Berthe Morisot becomes a pupil of Corot.
*Édouard Manet has his first paintings accepted by the Salon (Paris).
*William Bell Scott concludes his series of murals of Northumbrian history at Wallington Hall with Iron and Coal, the Nineteenth Century.

January 21 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor
February 1 – Jacques-Émile Blanche, French painter
April 9 – Charles Holroyd, English etcher
June 19 – Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor
June 29 – Pedro Figari, Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer and politician
July 18 – Lucien Simon, French painter and teacher
August 9 – J. W. Godward, English Neoclassical painter
August 17 – Ludwig von Hofmann, German Impressionist painter
October 4 – Frederic Remington, American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer
October 15 – Nels N. Alling, Danish-American sculptor
October 30 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor
December 8
* Aristide Maillol, French sculptor, painter and printmaker
* Georges Méliès, French filmmaker
December 16 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter, pastellist and draughtsman
December 20 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovene realist painter date unknown – Kiyohara Tama, Sicily-based Japanese painter