1867 in art

Events from the year 1867 in art.

Events

• Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Japanese woodblock prints in the West.
• Engravings of William Holman Hunt's The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple by Auguste III Blanchard are published by dealer Ernest Gambart in London, in editions totalling 13,000.

Works

Manet – The Races at Longchamp

• Frédéric Bazille – approximate date
  • Family Reunion
  • The Little Gardener
  • Portrait of Renoir
• George Henry Boughton – Pilgrims Going To Church
• Richard Burchett – Sanctuary
• William Burges – Narcissus washstand
• Giuseppe Calì – Death of Dragut (Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta)
• Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs
  • Carlyle Like a Rough Block of Michael Angelo's Sculpture
  • Profiles of Julie Jackson (her niece)
• Frederic Edwin Church – Niagara Falls, from the American Side
• Gustave Courbet – The kill of deer
• Edgar Degas – The Bellelli Family completed (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Gustave Doré – engraved illustrations to Dante's Il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso
• Jean-Léon Gérôme
  • Arnaut with two whippets
  • The Death of Caesar
  • Jerusalem, also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est or The Crucifixion
  • Napoleon in Egypt
  • The runners of the Pasha
  • Western Wall
• Artur Grottger
  • Phryne
• Gustave Achille Guillaumet – The Sahara
• Francesco Hayez
  • The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem^[1]
  • Odalisque
  • Odalisque in Her Sleep
• Frank Holl
  • Convalescent
  • Faces in the Fire
• Ivan Kramskoi – Self-portrait
• Sir Edwin Landseer
  • Bronze lions for Nelson's Column
  • The Wild Cattle of Chillingham
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Games of Love (terracotta)
• Frederic Leighton – Venus Disrobing for the Bath
• Édouard Manet
  • L'Exposition universelle de 1867 ("The Universal Exhibition") (Nationalgalleriet, Oslo)
  • The Races at Longchamp
• John Everett Millais – Sleeping
• Claude Monet
  • Femme au jardin (Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden at Sainte-Adresse) (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
  • Garden at Sainte-Adresse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Johannes Adam Simon Oertel – Rock of Ages
• Vasily Perov – The Drowned
• Edward Poynter – Israel in Egypt
• Val Prinsep
  • Lisa (from Boccaccio's 'Decameron')
  • Miriam Watching the Infant Moses
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Lise (with a Parasol)
• Simeon Solomon – Carrying the Scrolls of the Law
• Frederick Walker – Bathers
• James McNeill Whistler – Symphony in White, No. 3

Births

• January 17 – Louise Upton Brumback, American landscape painter (died 1929)
• February 19 – Emília dos Santos Braga, Portuguese painter (died 1949)
• March 8 – William de Leftwich Dodge, American muralist (died 1935)
• March 10 – Leonard Raven-Hill, English illustrator (died 1942)
• March 25 – Gutzon Borglum, American artist and sculptor (died 1941)
• April 8 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (died 1908)
• April 10 – George William Russell, Irish critic, poet and painter (died 1935)
• May 12 - Frank Brangwyn, Welsh painter (died 1956)
• June 8
  • Dagny Juel, Norwegian muse (murdered 1901)
  • O'Galop (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (died 1946)
• July 5 – Max Jakob Friedländer, German-born curator and art historian (died 1958)
• July 8 – Käthe Kollwitz, German graphic artist and sculptor (died 1945)
• August 26 – Viktor Foerster, Czech painter and mosaic artist (died 1915)
• September 9 – Ernst Oppler, German painter (died 1929)
• September 14 – Charles Dana Gibson, American graphic artist (died 1944)
• September 16 – Eva Watson-Schütze, American portrait photographer (died 1935)
• September 19 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (died 1939)
• October 3 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (died 1947)
• October 15 - Fujishima Takeji, Japanese painter (died 1943)
• November 4 - Henry Charles Fehr, British sculptor (died 1940)
• Undated
  • Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian painter (died 1946)
  • Pinckney Marcius-Simons, American painter (died 1909)

Deaths

• January 4 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality and memorialist (born 1773)
• January 14 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (born 1780)
• February 10 – Carl Wagner, German Romantic landscape painter (born 1796)
• February 28 – Jacques Raymond Brascassat, French painter (born 1804)
• March – Kazimierz Jelski, Polish architect and sculptor (born 1782)
• March 3 – J. L. Lund, Danish painter especially of historical subjects (born 1777)
• March 6 – Peter von Cornelius, German painter (born 1784)
• April 15 – Adelaide Ironside, Australian painter (born 1831)
• May 18 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter (born 1793)^[2]
• September 15 – Alexis Joseph Depaulis, French sculptor and medallist (born 1792)
• December 4 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter (born 1797)
• December 22 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter (born 1812)^[3]
• December 27 – Antoine Claudet, French photographer and artist (born 1797)
• December 29 – Carlo Marochetti, Italian-born sculptor (born 1805)
• date unknown
  • Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher and devout Confucian scholar (born 1793)
  • James Pollard, English painter and aquatint engraver especially of coach, fox hunting and equine scenes (born 1792)

References

1. "The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem". gallerie accademia Venezia. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
2. Williamson, George Charles (1912). "William Clarkson Stanfield" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
3.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomson, David Croal (1911). "Rousseau, Pierre Étienne Théodore". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 779.