1870 in art

Events from the year 1870 in art.

Events

2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1870 opens at Burlington House in London
June 28 – Claude Monet marries his mistress and model Camille Doncieux in Paris; Gustave Courbet is a witness.
July – Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet, Pissarro, Daubigny and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel flee to London; Cézanne and his mistress, Marie-Hortense Fiquet, leave Paris for L'Estaque where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, Frédéric Bazille joins a Zouave regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.
Russian industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov acquires the Abramtsevo Colony and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems are published, exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.
Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca.

Paintings

Wilhelm Amberg – Reading from Goethe's Werther
Frédéric Bazille
* Countryside near Lex
* Studio in the rue Condamine
* La Toilette
Cathy Madox Brown – Ford Madox Brown at his Easel
Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet
Edward Burne-Jones – Phyllis and Demophoon
Paul Cézanne – Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola
Edgar Degas
* The Dancing Class
* The Orchestra at the Opera
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – Demosthenes Practicing Oratory
Henri Fantin-Latour – A Studio in the Batignolles
Anselm Feuerbach – The Judgement of Paris
Mariano Fortuny – The Spanish Wedding
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Moorish Bath
Arthur Hughes – You Cannot Barre Love Oute
Christian Inger - Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
Jean-Paul Laurens – Pope Formosus and Stephen VI
Édouard Manet
* La Brioche
* Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge
John Everett Millais
* The Boyhood of Raleigh
* The Knight Errant
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
* Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne)
* La Promenade
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* Beata Beatrix
* Sibylla Palmifera
Dmitri Sinodi-Popov – An Old Greek
James Tissot
* Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
* La Partie carrée
Raja Ravi Varma – ''Shakuntala''

Sculpture

Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City)

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal

Births

January 1 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic
January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor
February 5 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator
March 13 – William Glackens, American painter
June 22 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born painter and art teacher
July 21 – Emil Orlík, Czech-born painter and lithographer
July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator
November 4 – Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator
November 18 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor
November 25 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist
December 23 – John Marin, American painter date unknown – Arthur Diehl, English-born landscape painter

Deaths

January 17 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator
January 27 – Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes
February 21 – Robert Jefferson Bingham, English-born photographer
March 19 – William Egley, English miniature painter
April 25 – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter
May 17 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer
July 13 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter
August 25 – Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, English francophile art collector
November 7 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter
November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter
December 9
* Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter
* Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast
December 12 – Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter
Undated – Achille Leonardi, Italian genre painter