The legend of the parrot Illarion Pryanishnikov – Jokers: Gostiny Dvor in Moscow Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Blue Bower Alfred Sisley – Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud John Tenniel – illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland S. S. Teulon – Buxton Memorial Fountain (Westminster) James McNeill Whistler – Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Emperor Franz Joseph Thomas Woolner – Godley Statue Births January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter (died 1911) January 23 – Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model (died 1946) April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (died 1931) May 5 – Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (died 1892) June 25 – Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School (died 1929) June 26 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian (died 1959) June 28 – David Young Cameron, Scottish painter (died 1945) August 2 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (died 1955) August 20 – Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher (died 1951) September 23 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter (died 1938) November 11 – Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter (died 1935) December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1925) date unknown – Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (died 1929) Deaths January 10 – William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector (born 1795) January 12 – Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (born 1786) January 19 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer (born 1822) January 21 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (born 1793) January 23 – Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (born 1797) February 21 – Constant Troyon, French painter (born 1810) April 21 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of murals and frescoes (born 1798) April 28 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (born 1794) June 18 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (born 1806) July 11 – Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter (born 1788) August 14 – Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter (born 1804) August 23 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (born 1793) September 17 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (born 1796) September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker