Editing 1871 in art (section)

==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" (later called "nocturnes") 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Riat|first=Georges|title=Gustave Courbet – peintre|url=https://archive.org/details/gustavecourbetpe00riat|date=1906|location=Paris|publisher=Floury|oclc=902368834|pages=120–2}}</ref>
* Summer – [[Claude Monet]] visits [[Zaandam]].
* December – Monet and his wife [[Camille Doncieux|Camille]] move to [[Argenteuil]].
* [[William Morris]] and [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] become tenants of [[Kelmscott Manor]], which they share with [[Jane Morris]].
* [[Marie Spartali Stillman|Marie Spartali]] marries [[William James Stillman]].
* [[Edwin B. Crocker]] establishes the [[Crocker Art Museum]] in [[Sacramento, California]].