# 1868 in art

Events from the year 1868 in art.

## Events

* Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris.
* 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

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends
* Frédéric Bazille
** Self-portrait
** View of the Village
* Albert Bierstadt
** Among the Sierra Nevada, California
** In the Sierras
** Tyrolean Landscape
** 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)
* Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture)
* Lowes Cato Dickinson – Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886
* Lot Flannery – 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
** 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
* Claude Monet – 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 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (sculpture)
* Vasily Perov – At the Railroad
* Val Prinsep – A Venetian Lover
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
** In the Summer (The Bohemian girl)
** The Boy with the Cat
** Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
** The Blue Silk Dress (Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool))
** Lady Lilith (original version)
** Pia de' Tolomei
* Frederick Sandys – Medea
* James Tissot – Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale
* Frederick Walker – The Vagrants

## Births

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

## Deaths

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