1866 in art

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Events from the year 1866 in art.

Winslow Homer: Prisoners from the front, 1866, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oil on canvas. 24 x 38in

Events[edit]

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.
Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.

Works[edit]

Monet's painting of his future wife Camille Doncieux

Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie

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 – Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Gustave Courbet
- L'Origine du monde
- Le Sommeil
Edgar Degas – Steeplechase – The Fallen Jockey
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
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[edit]

January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
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)
August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)
unknown date – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)