Events from the year 1868 in art. Events Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris. Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established. English merchant Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate, begins to add paintings to his art collection at Doughty House, Richmond, London. Works Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends Frédéric Bazille Self-portrait View of the Village Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada, California In the Sierras Tyrolean Landscape Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park (approximate date) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Why Born Enslaved! or Why Born a Slave? - French Pourquoi! Naitre esclave? or La Negresse (first conceived) Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture) Lowes Cato Dickinson – Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886 Lot Flannery – Abraham Lincoln (marble, Washington, D.C.) Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Execution of Marshal Ney George P. A. Healy – The Peacemakers Holman Hunt – Isabella and the Pot of Basil (large and small versions) Charles-Auguste Lebourg – The Child and the Grasshopper (marble) Édouard Manet The Balcony Luncheon in the Studio (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) Mme. Manet at the Piano (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Portrait d’Émile Zola (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) Portrait of Théodore Duret (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) John Everett Millais – Vanessa Claude Monet – On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt Albert Joseph Moore Azaleas A Greek Play (tempera panel for proscenium of Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, London) Elisabet Ney – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (sculpture) Vasily Perov – At the Railroad Val Prinsep – A Venetian Lover Pierre-Auguste Renoir In the Summer (The Bohemian girl) The Boy with the Cat Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blue Silk Dress (Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool)) Lady Lilith (original version) Pia de' Tolomei Frederick Sandys – Medea James Tissot – Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale Frederick Walker – The Vagrants Births April 6 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (died 1919) April 12 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American doll-maker (died 1932) April 21 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American modernist painter (suicide 1932) April 28 – Émile Bernard, French Post-Impressionist painter (died 1941) June 5 – Johan Thorn Prikker, Dutch art nouveau painter and stained-glass artist (died 1932) June 18 – Georges Lacombe, French sculptor and painter (died 1916) October 8 Fidus (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener), German graphic designer (died 1948) Max Slevogt, German artist (died