1860 in art

Events

• Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe.

Works

Manet - The Spanish Singer

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Bargain
• Edgar Degas - Young Spartans Exercising (begun about this date)
• Hiroshige II - Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishū
• William Holman Hunt - The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
• Daniel Huntington - Chocorua
• Édouard Manet
  • Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• John Everett Millais - The Black Brunswicker
• Clark Mills - Lieutenant General George Washington (equestrian statue, Washington, D.C.)

Births

• January 29 - William Jacob Baer, painter (died 1941)
• April 6 - René Lalique, French glass designer (died 1945)
• May 31 - Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (died 1942)
• June 18 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (died 1930)
• August 5 - Louis Wain, cat portrait painter (died 1942)
• September 7 - Grandma Moses, American folk artist (died 1961)
• date unknown - Iris Nampeyo, Hopi potter and ceramic artist (died 1942)

Deaths

• January 20 - William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (born 1794)
• February 16 - Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (born 1804)
• April 28 - Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (born 1811)
• August 22 - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (born 1803)
• October 2 - Louis Hersent, French painter (born 1777)
• October 3 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (born 1778)
• date unknown
  • Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (b. 1801)
  • Juan Antonio Rivera, historical painter (b. unknown)