1862 in art

Events from the year 1862 in art.

Events

May 1–November 1 – 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London. Notable artistic displays include a large picture gallery; work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company; and an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style. Morris designs his first wallpaper, Trellis.
May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1862 opens at the National Gallery in London
November 3 – First appearance in print of the term Macchiaioli for the group of revolutionary young Italian painters, in a hostile review published in the journal Gazzetta del Popolo.
Claude Monet becomes a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he meets Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley, sharing new approaches to painting en plein air.

Works

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – The Pearl and the Wave
Albert Bierstadt
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* Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War
Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Isted Lion
George Price Boyce – At Binsey, near Oxford
William Burges - Great Bookcase
Gustave Courbet – Femme nue couchée
Thomas Crawford – Statue of Freedom
Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis
Eugène Delacroix
* Ovid among the Scythians
* Shipwreck on the Coast
Augustus Egg – The Travelling Companions
Anselm Feuerbach – Iphigenia
William Powell Frith – The Railway Station
Walter Greaves – Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-Race Day
Arthur Hughes – '
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Turkish Bath
Eastman Johnson – A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
Edward Lear – Philæ and Beachy Head
Édouard Manet
* Music in the Tuileries
* Lola de Valence
* The Old Musician
* Mlle.Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada
* The Street Singer
Robert Braithwaite Martineau – The Last Day in the Old Home
Jan Matejko – Stańczyk
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – Napoleon I in 1814
Jean-François Millet – L'homme à la houe
William Morris – Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Moritz von Schwind – The Honeymoon
Clarkson Stanfield – Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1849
James Tissot – The Return of the Prodigal Son
G. F. Watts – approximate date
* Lady Margaret Beaumont and her Daughter
* Sisters
* Edith Villiers
James McNeill Whistler
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*''Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl''

Births

March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter
March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter
April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter
June 14 – Herbert Dicksee, English painter
July 10 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter
July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter
July 29 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter
August 15 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes
September 12 – Carl Eytel, German American artist
October 26 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic
November 25 – Katharine Adams, English bookbinder
December 3 – Charles Grafly, American sculptor

Deaths

January 3 – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor
February 11 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overdose of laudanum
February 15 – Heinrich Adam, German painter
March 18 – Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably painted Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C.
March 19 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter
May – Alexandre-François Caminade, French religious and portrait painter
May 14 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller
July 7 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter
July 17 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher
August 7 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist
August 10 – Erin Corr, Irish engraver
August 28 – Albrecht Adam, German painter of battles and horses
September 20 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator
October 29 – John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniaturist
Undated – Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner