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Events from the year 1853 in art.

Events

  • 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London
  • 15 May – Salon of 1853 opens in Paris
  • Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

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  • Ivan Aivazovsky
  • Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop
  • The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle)
  • Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sorauren
  • John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze)
  • Théodore Chassériau – Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
  • Walter Deverell
  • The Grey Parrot (c. 1852–53)
  • A Pet
  • William Powell Frith – The Sleeping Model
  • Francis Grant
  • Portrait of Hope Grant
  • Portrait of Lord John Russell
  • Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871)
  • Princesse Albert de Broglie
  • Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze)
  • John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His Wrath and The Plains of Heaven
  • John Everett Millais
  • The Order of Release
  • The Proscribed Royalist, 1651
  • Gustave Moreau – The Song of Songs
  • Clarkson Stanfield – The Last of the Crew
  • Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting)
  • Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born
  • Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda
  • Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin
  • Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight
  • Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon
  • Jules-Claude Ziegler – The Peace of Amiens

Births

  • February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928)
  • March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
  • March 30
  • Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890)
  • May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934)
  • May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919)
  • September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931)
  • October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927)
  • December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)

Deaths

  • February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799)
  • April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
  • June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781)
  • July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766)
  • July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783)
  • November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814)
  • December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788)
  • date unknown
  • Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790)
  • Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)

References