1860 in art

List of years 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

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Bargain
• 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)

Births

• January 29 - William Jacob Baer, painter (d. 1941)
• May 31 - Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (d. 1942)
• June 18 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (d. 1930)
• September 7 - Grandma Moses, folk artist, painter, (d. 1961)
• Iris Nampeyo - (1860?–1942), potter, ceramic artist

Deaths

• April 28 - Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (b. 1811)
• August 22 - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (b. 1803)
• date unknown - Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (b. 1804)
• date unknown - Juan Antonio Rivera, historical painter