Events

• April 15 - First Impressionist exhibition opens in a private studio (belonging to Nadar) outside the official Paris Salon; Louis Leroy in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari coins the term "impressionism".
• Claude Monet begins painting his Snow at Argenteuil series.
• Berthe Morisot marries Eugene, brother of douard Manet.
• Helen Paterson marries William Allingham.

Works

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• Ford Madox Brown - Cromwell on his Farm
• Louis Buvelot - Macedon Ranges
• Edgar Degas - The Dancing Lesson
• Thomas Eakins - Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand
• Henri Fantin-Latour - Still Life with Pansies (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Luke Fildes - Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
• Emmanuel Fr miet - Joan of Arc (formerly in the Place des Pyramides, Paris)
• Armand Guillaumin - La Seine (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Winslow Homer - Farmer with a Pitch Fork
• Vilhelm Kyhn - Sildig Sommeraften ved Himmelbj rget ("Late Summer Evening near Himmelbjerget")
• douard Manet - Boating (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Antonin Merci - Gloria Victis (sculpture)
• Claude Monet - The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil
• Berthe Morisot - The Butterfly Hunt
• John Pettie - Jacobites
• Camille Pissarro - Portrait of C zanne
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La loge
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Tate Britain)
• Alfred Sisley -
• James Tissot - On the Thames (approximate date)

Births

• March 23 - Henri Manguin, painter (d. 1949)
• April 7 - Frederick Carl Frieseke, painter (d. 1939)
• May 11 - Einar J nsson, sculptor (d. 1954)
• July 28 - Joaqu n Torres Garc a, Uruguayan painter (d. 1949)
• October 16 - Otto Mueller, painter (d. 1930)
• date unknown - Arnold Friedman, Modernist painter (d. 1946)

Deaths

• April 19 - Owen Jones, architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography (b. 1809)
• April 20 - Alexander Hunter Murray, fur trader and artist (b. 1818/1819)
• May 5 - Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, painter (b. 1806)
• November 21 - Mariano Fortuny, painter (b. 1838)
• December 6 - Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter (b. 1803)
• October 28 - William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (b. 1825)

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