Events from the year 1866 in art. Events July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name. Works Albert Bierstadt – A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie Carl Bloch – In a Roman Osteria Odoardo Borrani – At the Chorus Edward Burne-Jones – The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty Series of Life Sized Heads Paul Cézanne – Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Gustave Courbet L'Origine du monde Le Sommeil Edgar Degas – Steeplechase – The Fallen Jockey Gustav Doré (woodcuts) Illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours Illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost Giovanni Fattori – La Rotonda di Palmieri Jean-Léon Gérôme Cleopatra and Caesar The Slave Market (approximate date) Francesco Hayez – Odalisque with Book David Octavius Hill – The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission at Tanfield, Edinburgh 23 May 1843 (completed) Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Sir Edwin Landseer – The Arab Tent (Wallace Collection, London; approximate date) August Malmström – Dancing Fairies Édouard Manet The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Jan Matejko – Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland Claude Monet Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe Women in the Garden (begun) Albert Joseph Moore The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand (on chancel walls of church of St. Alban's, Rochdale; completed) The Shunamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Beloved Rebecca Solomon – A Wounded Dove Simeon Solomon – Love in Autumn Bertalan Székely – The Battle of Mohács Frederick Walker – Wayfarers John Quincy Adams Ward – Indian Hunter (bronze) Births January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952) March 17 – Alice Austen, American photographer (died 1952)