Editing 1868 in art

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Events from the year '''1868 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[Rodolphe Julian]] establishes the [[Académie Julian]] in Paris.
* [[Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin|Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin]] established.
* English merchant [[Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate]], begins to add paintings to his art collection at [[Doughty House]], [[Richmond, London]].
* Due to debt and eviction, [[Claude Monet]] attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine river.

==Works==
[[File:Basilpot.jpg|thumb|[[Holman Hunt]] – ''[[Isabella and the Pot of Basil]]'']]
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* [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] – ''[[:File:1868 Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends.jpg|Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends]]''
* [[Frédéric Bazille]]
** ''[[:File:Bazille Self Portrait.jpg|Self-portrait]]''
** ''[[:File:Bazille, Frédéric ~ View of the Village, 1868.jpg|View of the Village]]''
* [[Albert Bierstadt]]
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140601200952/http://americanart.si.edu/images/1977/1977.107.1_1a.jpg Among the Sierra Nevada, California]''
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907180140/http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/detail.dot?objectid=1940.299 In the Sierras]''
** ''Tyrolean Landscape''
** ''[[:File:Bierstadt Albert Yosemite Valley Yellowstone Park.jpg|Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park]]'' (approximate date)
* [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]] – ''[[Why Born Enslaved!]]'' or ''Why Born a Slave?'' – French ''Pourquoi! Naitre esclave?'' or ''La Negresse'' (first conceived)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/why-born-enslaved#:~:text=Why%20Born%20Enslaved!,-by%20Jean-Baptiste&text=It%20is%20critical%20to%20reckon,sculptors%20of%20the%20nineteenth%20century. |title=Why Born Enslaved! by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux |website=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]}}</ref>
* [[Léon-Alexandre Delhomme]] – ''[[Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Lowes Cato Dickinson]] – ''[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=ap&npgno=5116&eDate=&lDate=&rNo= Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886]''
* [[Lot Flannery]] – ''[[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (District of Columbia City Hall)|Abraham Lincoln]]'' (marble, Washington, D.C.)
* [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] – ''[[The Execution of Marshal Ney]]''
* [[George P. A. Healy]] – ''[[The Peacemakers]]''
* [[Holman Hunt]] – ''[[Isabella and the Pot of Basil]]'' (large and small versions)
* [[Charles-Auguste Lebourg]] – ''The Child and the Grasshopper'' (marble)
* [[Édouard Manet]]
** ''[[The Balcony (painting)|The Balcony]]''
** ''[[Luncheon in the Studio]]'' ([[Neue Pinakothek]], [[Munich]])
** ''[[Mme. Manet at the Piano]]'' ([[Musée d'Orsay]], [[Paris]])
** ''Portrait d’[[Émile Zola]]'' (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
** ''[[Portrait of Théodore Duret]]'' ([[Musée du Petit Palais]], Paris)
* [[John Everett Millais]] – ''[[Vanessa (Millais painting)|Vanessa]]''
* [[Claude Monet]] – ''[[:File:Claude Monet River Scene at Bennecourt, Seine.jpg|On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt]]''
* [[Albert Joseph Moore]]
** ''Azaleas''
** ''A Greek Play'' ([[tempera]] panel for [[proscenium]] of [[Queen's Theatre, Long Acre]], London)
* [[Elisabet Ney]] – ''[[:File:Ludwig II Ney.jpg|King Ludwig II of Bavaria]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Vasily Perov]] – ''At the Railroad''
* [[Val Prinsep]] – ''A Venetian Lover''
* [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]
** ''[[The Bohemian (Renoir painting)|In the Summer (The Bohemian girl)]]''
** ''[[:File:Pierre Auuste Renoir 1868 Young Boy with a cat.jpg|The Boy with the Cat]]''
** ''[[Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne]]''
* [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]
** ''[[:Image:Jane-morris-blue-silk.jpg|The Blue Silk Dress]]'' ([[Walker Art Gallery]] ([[National Museums Liverpool]]))
** ''[[Lady Lilith]]'' (original version)
** ''[[Pia de' Tolomei (painting)|Pia de' Tolomei]]''
* [[Frederick Sandys]] – ''[[Medea (Sandys painting)|Medea]]''
* [[James Tissot]] – ''[[:File:Tissot cercle.jpg|Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale]]''
* [[Frederick Walker (painter)|Frederick Walker]] – ''[[:File:The Vagrants.JPG|The Vagrants]]''

==Births==
* [[April 6]] – [[Helen Hyde]], American etcher and engraver (died [[1919 in art|1919]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Ella Gaunt Smith]], American doll-maker (died [[1932 in art|1932]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Alfred Henry Maurer]], American modernist painter (suicide [[1932 in art|1932]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Émile Bernard (painter)|Émile Bernard]], [[French people|French]] [[Post-Impressionist]] painter (died [[1941 in art|1941]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Johan Thorn Prikker]], Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (died [[1932 in art|1932]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Georges Lacombe (painter)|Georges Lacombe]], French [[Sculpture|sculptor]] and painter (died [[1916 in art|1916]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Willy Gretor]], born Vilhelm Petersen, Danish-born painter and art dealer (died [[1923 in art|1923]])
* [[October 8]]
** [[Fidus]] (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener), German graphic designer (died [[1948 in art|1948]])
** [[Max Slevogt]], German artist (died [[1932 in art|1932]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Édouard Vuillard]], French painter (died [[1940 in art|1940]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Mary Brewster Hazelton]], American portrait painter (died [[1953 in art|1953]])

==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]])

==References==
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