and gallery founder (died 1915) November 13 – Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (died 1974) November 24 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (died 1928) December 25 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (died 1963) date unknown – Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter (died 1957) Deaths January 18 – O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England (born 1813) January 20 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (born 1814) February – Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter (born 1800) February 22 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (born 1796) February 28 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver (born 1819) March 20 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (born 1797) April 13 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (born 1817) April 21 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (born 1782) April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer (born 1766) May 1 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (born 1818) June 4 – Frederick Walker, English social realist painter (born 1840) June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796) July 9 – Christian Ruben, German painter (born 1805) September 11 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent (born 1799) September 12 – Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter (born 1786) September 28 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (born 1793) October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (born 1827) November 25 – Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator (born 1788) December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher (born 1791) References Years of the 19th century in art 1870s in art