1873 in art

Events from the year 1873 in art.

Events

• Early – Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is arrested in a public urinal in London and convicted and fined for gross indecency.
• 5 May
  • The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1873 opens at Burlington House in London
  • The Salon of 1873 opens at the Palace of Industry in Paris
• May – Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie.
• World exhibition in Vienna.
• Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently.
• The collection forming the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is moved to the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia.
• New Accademia delle Arti del Disegno established in Florence.
• Leslie Ward, as "Spy", begins producing caricatures for the British magazine Vanity Fair.
• Michelangelo's statue of David is removed from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to the Galleria dell'Accademia.

Works

Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr
• Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins (original watercolour version)
• Alexandre Cabanel – La Comtesse de Keller
• Gustave Caillebotte – Nude woman lying on a couch
• Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Letter From Daddy
• Mary Cassatt – After the Bullfight
• Walter Crane – Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome
• Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Last Cartridges (Les dernières cartouches)
• Edgar Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Éminence Grise
• Hans Gude – Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten
• Winslow Homer – The Boat Builders
• William Holman Hunt – The Shadow of Death
• Rudolf Koller – Gotthardpost
• Ivan Kramskoi
  • Ivan Shishkin
  • Leo Tolstoy
• Édouard Manet
  • Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Jan Matejko – Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God
• Pál Szinyei Merse – Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest)
• John Everett Millais
  • Portrait of Effie Millais
  • Winter Fuel
• Claude Monet
  • The Artist's House at Argenteuil
  • Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
  • Poppies Blooming
• Albert Joseph Moore – Follow-my-Leader
• Camille Pissarro – Self-portrait
• Ilya Repin – Barge Haulers on the Volga
• John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
• Heinrich Strack – Berlin Victory Column
• James Tissot
  • The Captain's Daughter
  • The Last Evening
  • Too Early
  • Waiting for the Train
• James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Births

• January 28 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide 1928)
• February 14 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (died 1942)
• March 13 – Léon Delagrange, French sculptor and aviator (died 1910)
• April 3 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (died 1918)
• April 4 – Élie Faure, French art historian (died 1937)
• April 24 – André Bauchant, French painter (died 1958)
• May 10 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 1954)
• July 6 – Ethel Sands, American-born painter (died 1962)
• July 7 – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (died 1942)
• October 12 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (died 1915)
• December 5 – Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer was born in England (died 1947)
• date unknown – Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (died 1961)
• approximate date – Olowe of Ise, Yoruba wood sculptor (died c. 1938)

Deaths

• March 25 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (born 1810)
• April 17 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (born 1783)
• April 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1809)
• May 13 – Konstantin Danil, renowned Serbian painter (born 1798)
• May 19 – Charles Lucy, English painter (born 1814)
• July 8 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (born 1805)
• October 2 – Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (born 1881)
• October 9 – John Evan Thomas, Welsh sculptor (born 1810)
• November 25 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (born 1792)
• November 27 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English historical, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (born 1793)
• December 9 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1791)
• date unknown
  • Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in both the Biedermeier and Nazarene movement (born 1808)
  • Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (born 1813)
  • Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver (born 1785)