- 1866 in art
Events
Works
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Paul Cézanne - "Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading" l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC )
*Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - "Agostino" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
*Gustave Courbet - "L'Origine du monde"
*Winslow Homer - "Prisoners from the Front" (Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York)
*Édouard Manet
**"The Fifer" (Musée d'Orsay ,Paris )
**"A King Charles Spaniel" (National Gallery of Art ,Washington, DC )
**"Still Life with Melon and Peaches" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
**"Woman with a Parrot" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City|New York)Births
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July 3 -Ambroise Vollard , art dealer (d. 1939)
*"unknown date" -Lydia Field Emmet , painter and designer (d. 1952)Deaths
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January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (b. 1790)
*November 23 -Paul Gavarni , caricaturist (b. 1801/1804)
*William Bewick , English portrait painter (b. 1795)
* George Petrie - Irish painter,musician ,antiquary andarchaeologist (b. 1790)
*Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt , painter and astronomer (b. 1802)
*Ferdinand von Arnim , architect and watercolour painter (b. 1814)
*Frederick William Fairholt , engraver (b. 1814)
* Chester Harding - American portrait painter (b. 1792)
*Massimo d'Azeglio - Italianstatesman ,novelist and painter (b. 1798)
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