1863 in art

Exhibitions

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

Works

* Alexandre Cabanel - "The Birth of Venus"
*Édouard Manet - "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" ("Luncheon on the Grass") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris); "Olympia" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

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

Deaths

*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)
*August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (b. 1798)
* Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (b. 1781)
* Horace Vernet - French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (b. 1789)
* Charles C. Ingham - Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (b. 1797)
* William Mulready - Irish genre painter of rural scenes (b. 1786)
* James Duffield Harding - English landscape painter (b. 1798)
* Karl Ludwig Frommel - German landscape painter and engraver (b. 1789)
* Maria Martin - American watercolor painter (b. 1796)