1871 in art

Events from the year 1871 in art.

Events

March – Edward Lear settles at his villa in Sanremo.
Spring – James McNeill Whistler publishes Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames and paints his first "moonlights" of the river.
March 18–May 28 – Paris Commune:
* April 5 – Federation of Artists, organized by Gustave Courbet, holds its first meeting in Paris. Membership includes Jules Dalou, Honoré Daumier, André Gill and Eugène Pottier; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet are also members but do not actively participate.
* May 16 – Napoleonic column in the Place Vendôme is pulled down according to a suggestion by Courbet, one of the events photographed by Bruno Braquehais.
* May – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri photographs dead Communards.
* c. May – James Tissot flees Paris for London.
June 14 – Camille Pissarro marries his mistress Julie Vellay in the London borough of Croydon and moves to Pontoise.
August 14 – Courbet is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine for his participation in the Paris Commune; during his time in prison he produces a series of still life paintings of fruit and flowers.
Summer – Claude Monet visits Zaandam.
December – Monet and his wife Camille move to Argenteuil.
William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti become tenants of Kelmscott Manor, which they share with Jane Morris.
Marie Spartali marries William James Stillman.
Edwin B. Crocker establishes the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.

January 27 – Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter
March 2 – Albert Herter, American painter
March 9 – Granville Redmond, American painter
April 11 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter
May ? – Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, Irish-born engraver and portrait painter
May 1 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor
May 11 – Mariano Fortuny, Spanish-born fashion designer
May 27 – Georges Rouault, French Expressionist painter and stained glass artist
June 12 – Victor David Brenner, Lithuanian-born American medalist, sculptor and engraver
July 24 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter
August 22 – Émile André, French architect and designer
October 26 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-born photographer date unknown – Peter Moog, German outsider artist