1853 in art

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Template:Redirect category shell Events from the year 1853 in art.

Events

• Georges-Eugène Haussmann is selected as prefect to begin the re-planning of Paris.

Works

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Holman Hunt – The Awakening Conscience

• 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 – The Tepidarium (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Gustave Courbet – The Bathers (Les Baigneuses, Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
• Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz – Portrait of Amalia de Llano Countess of Vilches
• 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 Wrath and The Plains of Heaven
• John Everett Millais
  • The Order of Release
  • The Proscribed Royalist, 1651
• Gustave Moreau – The Death of Darius
• 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
• 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)
• March 27 – Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (born 1780)
• April 8 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (born 1779)
• 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
  • Maria Johanna Görtz – Swedish still life artist (born 1783)
  • 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)