# 1870 in art

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; 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.
* Russian 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 are published, exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.
* Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca.

## Paintings

* Wilhelm Amberg – Reading from Goethe's Werther (Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther)
* Frédéric Bazille
** Countryside near Lex
** Studio in the rue Condamine
** La Toilette
* Cathy Madox Brown – Ford Madox Brown at his Easel
* Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet
* Edward Burne-Jones – Phyllis and Demophoon
* Paul Cézanne – 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 – Demosthenes Practicing Oratory (Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole)
* Henri Fantin-Latour – A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Anselm Feuerbach – The Judgement of Paris (c. 1869–70)
* Mariano Fortuny – The Spanish Wedding (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)
* Jean-Léon Gérôme – Moorish Bath
* Arthur Hughes – You Cannot Barre Love Oute
* Christian Inger - Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
* Jean-Paul Laurens – Pope Formosus and Stephen VI (Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII)
* Édouard Manet
** La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
** Beata Beatrix (approximate completion date)
** Sibylla Palmifera
* Dmitri Sinodi-Popov – An Old Greek
* James Tissot
** Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
** La Partie carrée
* 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)
* January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (died 1945)
* February 5 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (died 1938)
* March 13 – William Glackens, American painter (died 1938)
* June 22 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born painter and art teacher (died 1955)
* July 21 – Emil Orlík, Czech-born painter and lithographer (died 1932)
* July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (died 1966)
* November 18 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (died 1919)
* November 25 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (died 1943)
* December 23 – John Marin, American painter (died 1953)
* date unknown – Arthur Diehl, English-born landscape painter (died 1929)

## Deaths

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