1861 in art

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Events from the year 1861 in art.

Events[edit]

February – Hilda Sjölin opens a photography studio in Malmö, making her one of the first known Swedish female professional photographers.
July 15 – English painter Joanna Mary Boyce dies aged 29 from complications following the birth of her third child, leaving her paintings Bird of God and Undine uncompleted (the latter being finished by her widower Henry Tanworth Wells); Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a drawing of her on her deathbed.^[1]
Paul Cézanne and his friend Émile Zola arrive in Paris.
Berthe Morisot becomes a pupil of Corot.
Édouard Manet has his first paintings accepted by the Salon (Paris) (The Spanish Singer and Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet).
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., "Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals", set up in London by William Morris, P. P. Marshall, Charles Faulkner, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb to craft Pre-Raphaelite-inspired furnishings.^[2]
William Bell Scott concludes his series of murals of Northumbrian history at Wallington Hall with Iron and Coal, the Nineteenth Century.^[3]

Auguste Bonheur – La Sortie du pâturage

January 21 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (died 1953)
February 1 – Jacques-Émile Blanche, French painter (died 1942)
April 9 – Charles Holroyd, English etcher (died 1917)
June 19 – Carl Seffner, German portrait sculptor (died 1932)
June 29 – Pedro Figari, Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer and politician (died 1938)
July 18 – Lucien Simon, French painter and teacher (died 1945)
August 17 – Ludwig von Hofmann, German Impressionist painter (died 1945)
October 4 – Frederic Remington, American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer (died 1909)
October 30 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (died 1929)
December 8
- Aristide Maillol, French sculptor, painter and printmaker (died 1944)
- Georges Méliès, French filmmaker (died 1938)
December 16 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (died 1917)
December 20 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovene realist painter (died 1926)
date unknown
- Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (died 1944)
- Kiyohara Tama, Sicily-based Japanese painter (died 1939)