Editing 1868 in art (section)

==Deaths==
* [[January 15]] – [[Lucie Ingemann]], [[Danes|Danish]] religious painter (born [[1792 in art|1792]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Adalbert Stifter]], [[Austria]]n [[writer]], [[poet]], painter, and [[pedagogue]] (born [[1805 in art|1805]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Emil Bærentzen]], Danish portrait painter and lithographer (born [[1799 in art|1799]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Giuseppe Abbati]], Italian painter (born [[1836 in art|1836]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Georg Heinrich Busse]], German landscape painter and engraver (born [[1810 in art|1810]])
* March – [[John Burnet (painter)|John Burnet]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[engraver]] and painter (born [[1781 in art|1781/1784]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Herman Wilhelm Bissen]], [[Danes|Danish]] sculptor (born [[1798 in art|1798]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Felix Slade]], English lawyer, art collector and founder of the [[Slade School of Art]] (born [[1788 in art|1788]])
* [[May 2]] – [[James Wilson Carmichael]], English marine painter (born [[1800 in art|1800]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Emanuel Leutze]], [[German American]] painter (born [[1816 in art|1816]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[George Cattermole]], English illustrator and watercolourist (born [[1800 in art|1800]])
** [[Adah Isaacs Menken]], [[Americans|American]] actress, painter and poet (born [[1835 in art|1835]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Richard Rothwell (painter)|Richard Rothwell]], [[Irish people|Irish]] [[portrait painter|portrait]] and [[genre works|genre]] painter (born [[1800 in art|1800]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Angélique Mezzara]], [[France|French]] [[portrait painter]] and [[Portrait miniature|miniaturist]] (born [[1793 in art|1793]])
* [[September 27]] – [[August Piepenhagen]], German painter active in [[Bohemia]] (born [[1791 in art|1791]])
* [[October 10]] – [[François-Édouard Picot]], [[France|French]] historic painter (born [[1786 in art|1786]])
* [[November 23]]
** [[Claude Victor de Boissieu]], French artist and local politician (born [[1783 in art|1783]])
** [[Charles Méryon]], French etcher (born [[1821 in art|1821]])
* [[December 1]] – [[John Edward Carew]], [[Ireland|Irish]] sculptor (born c. [[1782 in art|1782]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling]], Austrian painter (born [[1782 in art|1782]])
** [[Louis Royer]], [[Austrian Netherlands]] sculptor (born [[1793 in art|1793]])