1869 in art

Events

January 30 – New British magazine Vanity Fair publishes the first of a long series of colour lithographic caricatures of public figures, initially by Carlo Pellegrini, portraying Benjamin Disraeli.
January 31 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto.
May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1869 opens in London, held for the first time at Burlington House
July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner).
December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London.

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Births

January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907)
February 7 – Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (died 1943)
February 10 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
March 1 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (died 1959)
March 19 – Józef Mehoffer, Polish painter and decorative artist (died 1946)
April 6
- Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian painter and sculptor (died 1937)
- Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (died 1956)
April 11 – Maximilian Liebenwein, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1926)
June 7 – Lamorna Birch, born Samuel John Birch, English painter (died 1955)
June 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, born Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
June 27 – Kate Carew, born Mary Williams, American caricaturist (died 1961)
July 20 – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (died 1960)
October 14 – Joseph Duveen, English art dealer (died 1939)
October 22 – August Gaul, German sculptor (died 1922)
November 21 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, English-born American portrait photographer (died 1933)
December 1 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter, critic and assassin (executed 1923)
December 18 – Edward Willis Redfield, American impressionist landscape painter (died 1965)
December 31 – Henri Matisse, French painter (died 1954)
date unknown – William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (died 1952)

Deaths

January 8 – Paul Huet, French painter (born 1803)
June 10 – Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (born 1800)
July 4
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789)
- Édouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (born 1785)
July 10 – Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (born 1828)
August 26 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (born 1815)
August 8 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (born 1819)
October 12 – François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (born 1787)
November 22 – William Hamlin, American engraver, first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (born 1772)
December – Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (born 1815)
December 8 – Samuel Jackson, English topographical painter, "father" of the Bristol School of painters (born 1794)
December 29 – William Essex, English enamel-painter (born 1784)
date unknown
- Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (born 1787)
- Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (born 1797)

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