Editing 1870 in art

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Events from the year '''1870 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[June 28]] – [[Claude Monet]] marries his mistress and model [[Camille Doncieux]] in Paris; [[Gustave Courbet]] is a witness.
* July – [[Franco-Prussian War]] breaks out: [[Monet]], [[Pissarro]], [[Daubigny]] and the dealer [[Paul Durand-Ruel]] flee to [[London]]; [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]] and his mistress, [[Marie-Hortense Fiquet]], leave Paris for [[L'Estaque]] (on the [[French Riviera]]) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, [[Frédéric Bazille]] joins a [[Zouave]] regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]].
* [[Édouard Manet]] and [[Louis Edmond Duranty]] fight a duel at [[Café Guerbois]], Paris.
* [[Russia]]n industrialist and patron of the arts [[Savva Mamontov]] acquires the [[Abramtsevo Colony]] and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there.
* [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]'s ''[[Poems by D. G. Rossetti|Poems]]'' are published,<ref>{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}</ref> exhumed from [[Elizabeth Siddal]]'s grave.
* [[Daoud Corm]] goes to [[Rome]] to study under [[Roberto Bompiani]] at the [[Accademia di San Luca]].

==Paintings==
[[File:Millais Boyhood of Raleigh.jpg|thumb|[[John Everett Millais|Millais]] – ''[[The Boyhood of Raleigh]]'']]
* [[Wilhelm Amberg]] – ''[[:File:Wilhelm Amberg Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther.jpg|Reading from Goethe's Werther]]'' (''Vorlesung aus [[Goethe]]s ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther|Werther]])
* [[Frédéric Bazille]]
** ''[[:File:Frederic Bazille Paysage au bord du Lez.jpg|Countryside near Lex]]''
** ''[[:File:Bazille - Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine, 1870.jpg|Studio in the rue Condamine]]''
** ''[[:File:Bazille La Toilette.jpg|La Toilette]]''
* Cathy Madox Brown – ''Ford Madox Brown at his Easel''
* [[Ford Madox Brown]] – ''[[:File:Romeo and juliet brown.jpg|Romeo and Juliet]]''
* [[Edward Burne-Jones]] – ''[[:File:Edward Burne-Jones Phyllis and Demophoon 1870.jpg|Phyllis and Demophoon]]''
* [[Paul Cézanne]] – ''[[:File:Paul Cézanne - Paul Alexis Lê um Manuscrito a Zola.jpg|Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola]]'' (1869–70; [[São Paulo Museum of Art]])
* [[Edgar Degas]]
** ''[[The Dancing Class]]'' (c.)
** ''[[The Orchestra at the Opera]]'' (c.)
* [[Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ]] – ''[[:File:DemosthPracticing.jpg|Demosthenes Practicing Oratory]]'' (''Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole'')
* [[Henri Fantin-Latour]] – ''A Studio in the Batignolles'' ([[Musée d'Orsay]], [[Paris]])
* [[Anselm Feuerbach]] – ''[[:File:Anselm Feuerbach - Das Urteil des Paris.jpg|The Judgement of Paris]]'' (c. 1869–70)
* [[Mariano Fortuny (painter)|Mariano Fortuny]] – ''[[The Spanish Wedding]]'' ([[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya]])
* [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] – ''[http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/moorish-bath-32124 Moorish Bath]''
* [[Arthur Hughes (artist)|Arthur Hughes]] – ''You Cannot Barre Love Oute'' 
* [[Christian Inger]] - ''[[Smith Rescued by Pocahontas]]''
* [[Jean-Paul Laurens]] – ''[[:File:Jean Paul Laurens Le Pape Formose et Etienne VII 1870.jpg|Pope Formosus and Stephen VI]]'' (''Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII'')
* [[Édouard Manet]]
** ''[[La Brioche]]'' ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City|New York]])
** ''[[Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge]]'' ([[National Museum Cardiff]])
* [[John Everett Millais]] – ''[[The Boyhood of Raleigh]]'' ([[Tate Britain]], [[London]])
* [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]
** ''[[Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne)]]''
** ''[[La Promenade (1870 Renoir)|La Promenade]]''
* [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]
** ''[[Beata Beatrix]]'' (approximate completion date)
** ''[[:File:Rosetti sibyl.jpg|Sibylla Palmifera]]''
* [[Dmitri Sinodi-Popov]] – ''An Old Greek''
* [[James Tissot]]
** ''[[:File:James Tissot - Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby.jpg|Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby]]''
** ''[[:File:James Tissot - La Partie carrée.jpg|La Partie carrée]]''
* [[Raja Ravi Varma]] – ''[[Shakuntala (Raja Ravi Varma)|Shakuntala]]''

==Sculpture==
* [[Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City)]]

==Awards==
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], painting:
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], sculpture:
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: [[Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], music: [[Charles Edouard Lefebvre]] & [[Henri Maréchal]]

==Births==
* [[January 1]] – [[Louis Vauxcelles]], French Jewish art critic (died [[1943 in art|1943]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Alexander Stirling Calder]], American sculptor (died [[1945 in art|1945]])
* [[February 5]] – [[C. E. Brock]], English painter and illustrator (died [[1938 in art|1938]])
* [[March 13]] – [[William Glackens]], American painter (died 1938)
* [[June 22]] – [[Antonio Dattilo Rubbo]], Italian-born painter and art teacher (died [[1955 in art|1955]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Emil Orlík]], Czech-born painter and lithographer (died [[1932 in art|1932]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Maxfield Parrish]], American painter and illustrator (died [[1966 in art|1966]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Franz Metzner]], German sculptor (died [[1919 in art|1919]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Maurice Denis]], French painter and decorative artist (died [[1943 in art|1943]])
* [[December 23]] – [[John Marin]], American painter (died [[1953 in art|1953]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Arthur Diehl]], English-born landscape painter (died [[1929 in art|1929]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 17]] – [[Alexander Anderson (illustrator)|Alexander Anderson]], American illustrator (born [[1775 in art|1775]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Johannes Flintoe]], Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (born [[1787 in art|1787]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Robert Jefferson Bingham]], English-born photographer (born 1824 or 1825)
* [[March 19]] – [[William Egley]], English miniature painter (born [[1798 in art|1798]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Daniel Maclise]], Irish-born painter (born [[1806 in art|1806]])
* [[May 17]] – [[David Octavius Hill]], Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born [[1802 in art|1802]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Christian Albrecht Jensen]], Danish painter (born [[1792 in art|1792]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford]], English francophile art collector (born [[1800 in art|1800]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Cornelia Aletta van Hulst]], Dutch painter (born [[1797 in art|1797]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Frédéric Bazille]], French Impressionist painter (born [[1841 in art|1841]]) (killed in action)
* [[December 9]]
** [[Max Emanuel Ainmiller]], German glass painter (born [[1807 in art|1807]])
** [[Patrick MacDowell]], [[Irish people|Irish]] [[sculpture|sculptor]] from [[Belfast]] (born [[1799 in art|1799]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Martin Cregan]], Irish portrait painter (born [[1788 in art|1788]])
* Undated – [[Achille Leonardi]], [[Italy|Italian]] genre painter (born [[1800 in art|1800]])

==References==
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