Events

• James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.

Works

W.F. Yeames]] - And When Did You Last See Your Father?

• Mary Cassatt - Portrait of the Artist
• Eduard Charlemont - The Moorish Chief
• William Merritt Chase
  • A Fishmarket in Venice
  • The Mandolin Player
• James Collinson - The Holy Family
• Evelyn De Morgan - Night and Sleep
• Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
• Jean-Jacques Henner
  • The Magdalene
  • Portrait of M. Hayem
• douard Manet
  • At the Caf
  • Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts (Mus e d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Plum
  • The Rue Mosnier with Flags
• Jan Matejko - Battle of Grunwald
• John Everett Millais - The Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower
• Briton Rivi re - Persepolis
• Auguste Rodin - The Walking Man (bronze)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Vision of Fiammetta
• Alfred Sisley - Snow at Louveciennes (Mus e d'Orsay, Paris)
• James Tissot
  • Kathleen Newton In An Armchair
  • Seaside
• William Frederick Yeames - And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)

Births

• 4 January - Augustus John, painter (d. 1961)
• 16 January - Karl Isakson, Swedish painter (d. 1922)
• 27 March - Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), sculptor (d. 1947)
• 28 March - Abraham Walkowitz, American painter in the Modernist style (d.1965)
• 2 April - milie Charmy, French artist (d. 1974)
• 24 April - Jean Crotti, painter (d. 1958)
• 26 May - Spencer Gore, painter (d. 1914)
• 9 August - Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect (d. 1976).
• 8 October - Alfred Munnings, English equine painter (d. 1959)
• November 14 - Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (d. 1966)
• November 27 - William Orpen, portrait painter (d. 1931)

Deaths

• February 19 - Charles-Fran ois Daubigny, painter (b. 1817)
• February 26 - Alexandre Antigna, French painter (b. 1817)
• March 3 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, Englishsculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (b. 1796)
• April 23 - Jaroslav erm k, historical painter (b. 1831)
• August 21 - Conrad Martens, landscape painter (b. 1801)
• October 5 - Francis Grant, painter (b. 1803)
• December 19 - Joseph Nash, watercolour painter and lithographer (b. 1809)
• date unknown
  • Am d e Faur , portrait painter (b. 1801)
  • Kikuchi Y sai, Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (b. 1781)

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