1863 in art

Events

• Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography.

Exhibitions

• First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.

Manet - Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Works

• Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
• David Gilmour Blythe
  • Libby Prison
  • Man Eating in a Field
• Alexey Bogolyubov - Easter procession in Yaroslavl
• Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus
• Charles Camille Chazal - Institution of the Eucharist
• François-Claudius Compte-Calix - Vieil Ami
• Vilhelm Kyhn - Efter solnedgang i udkanten af en landsby ("After Sunset on the Outskirts of a Village")
• Édouard Manet
  • Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), exhibited at the Salon des Refusés
  • Olympia (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Robert Braithwaite Martineau - The Last Chapter
• Vincent Pilz - Pegasus (pair of bronzes) (approximate date)
• Eugene von Guerard - North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko

Births

• April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement (d. 1957)
• June 12 - Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor (d. 1931)
• June 16 - Arturo Michelena, painter (d. 1898)
• November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1935)
• December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)

Deaths

• January 17 - Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (b. 1789)
• February 6 - Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (b. 1789)
• February 16 - Alvan Fisher, United States's pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (b. 1792)
• April 4 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, painter and engraver (b. 1790)
• June 5 - Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (b. 1791)
• July 7 - William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (b. 1786)
• August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (b. 1798)
• September 19 - Joseph Nigg - Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (b. 1782)
• December 4 - James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (b. 1798)
• December 10 - Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (b. 1797)
• date unknown
  • Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (b. 1781)
  • Maria Martin,- American watercolor painter (b. 1796)