Events from the year 1853 in art.

Events 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 opens at the National Gallery in London 15 May – Salon of 1853 opens in Paris Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

Ivan Aivazovsky Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, 18th November 1853 (Night after the battle) Thomas Jones Barker – Wellington at Sorauren John Bell – A Daughter of Eve (bronze) Théodore Chassériau – Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches Walter Deverell The Grey Parrot (c. 1852–53) A Pet William Powell Frith – The Sleeping Model Frederick Goodall – An Episode in the Happier Days of Charles Ihttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-episode-in-the-happier-days-of-charles-i-164192 Francis Grant Portrait of Hope Grant Portrait of Lord John Russell Portrait of Thomas Babington Macaulayhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/thomas-babington-macaulay-18001859-baron-macaulay-fellow-historian-essayist-poet-and-mp-134711 Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Apotheosis of Napoleon I (destroyed by fire in 1871) Princesse Albert de Broglie Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Negro child playing with a lizard (Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard, bronze) John Martin – completion of the triptych The Last Judgement, The Great Day of His WrathMichael Wheeler, Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 1994, p.83 and The Plains of Heaven John Everett Millais The Order of Release The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 Gustave Moreau – The Song of Songs David Roberts – Interior of the Cathedral of St Stephen, Viennahttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/interior-of-the-cathedral-of-st-stephen-vienna-33465 Clarkson Stanfield – The Last of the Crew Christian Friedrich Tieck – Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń (posthumous casting) Henry Wallis – The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born Edward Matthew Ward The Execution of the Marquis of Montrosehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-execution-of-the-marquis-of-montrose-165804 Josephine Signing the Act of Her Divorcehttps://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4454/ Portrait of Thomas Babington Macaulayhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw04087/Thomas-Babington-Macaulay-Baron-Macaulay Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Florinda Albert Wolff – sculptures in Berlin Athena Leads the Young Warrior into the Fight Athena Teaches the Young Man How to Use a Weapon Jules-Claude Ziegler – The Peace of Amiens

Births February 26 – Nils Bergslien, Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor (died 1928) March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918) March 30 Frank O'Meara, Irish painter (died 1888) Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (suicide 1890) May 13 – Adolf Hölzel, German artist/painter in an Impressionist to expressive modernism style (died 1934) May 28 – Carl Larsson, painter and illustrator (died 1919) September 5 – Giuseppe Barison, Italian painter (died 1931) October 30 – Louise Abbéma, French Impressionist painter, sculptor and designer (died 1927) December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1927)

Deaths February 6 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799) April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)Jan Willem Pieneman in the RKD June 12 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (born 1781) July 15 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (born 1766) July 22 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (born 1783) November 28 – Hans Bendel, Swiss painter (born 1814) December 28 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (born 1788) date unknown Paweł Maliński, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (born 1790) Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing dynasty (born c.1778)

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