# 1866 in art

Events from the year 1866 in art.

## Events

* July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
* Following the death of Charles Lock Eastlake, Edwin Landseer is elected as the new President of the Royal Academy. After Landseer refuses the position, the portraitist Francis Grant becomes president
* Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.
* Théophile Thoré-Bürger publishes the first catalogue raisonné of Vermeer's paintings, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, bringing him to international prominence after nearly two centuries.

## Works

* Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
* Carl Bloch – In a Roman Osteria
* Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus
* Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon
* Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs
** The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty
** Series of Life Sized Heads
* Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Agostina (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
* Gustave Courbet
** L'Origine du monde
** Le Sommeil
* Edgar Degas – Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey (reworked in 1880-1881 and again c. 1897)
* Gustav Doré (woodcuts)
** Illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours
** Illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost
* Giovanni Fattori – La Rotonda di Palmieri
* Jean-Léon Gérôme
** Cleopatra and Caesar
** The Slave Market (approximate date)
* Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book
* David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed)
* Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
* Sir Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent (Wallace Collection, London; approximate date)
* August Malmström – Dancing Fairies
* Édouard Manet
** The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
** A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
** Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
** Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
* Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland
* Claude Monet
** Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
** Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
** Women in the Garden (begun)
* Albert Joseph Moore
** The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed)
** The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens
* Pierre August Renoir-
* ‘’Mother Anthony Tavern ‘’
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved
* Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove
* Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn
* Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács
* Frederick Walker – Wayfarers
* John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze)

## Births

* January 17 – Joseph Bernard, French sculptor (died 1931)
* January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
* February 26 – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)
* March 17 – Alice Austen, American photographer (died 1952)
* May 11 – Clare Atwood, English painter (died 1962)
* June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929)
* June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935)
* July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939)
* July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925)
* July 19 – John Duncan, Scottish painter (died 1945)
* July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (died 1943)
* August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
* August 13 – Jadwiga Golcz, Polish photographer (died 1936)
* August 31 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (died 1935)
* October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798)
* January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790)
* January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790)
* January 30 – Léon Bonvin, French painter an watercolorist (born 1834)
* March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814)
* April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792)
* April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814)
* April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812)
* April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792)
* April 24 – Giuseppe Tominz, Austrian portrait painter (born 1790)
* April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802)
* June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795)
* June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786)
* August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838)
* September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798)
* November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804)
* December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796)
* date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798)