Events from the year 1871 in art. Events March – Edward Lear settles at his villa in Sanremo. Spring – James McNeill Whistler publishes Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames and paints his first "moonlights" (later called "nocturnes") of the river. March 18–May 28 – Paris Commune: April 5 – Federation of Artists, organized by Gustave Courbet, holds its first meeting in Paris. Membership includes Jules Dalou, Honoré Daumier, André Gill and Eugène Pottier; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet are also members but do not actively participate. May 16 – Napoleonic column in the Place Vendôme is pulled down according to a suggestion by Courbet, one of the events photographed by Bruno Braquehais. May – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri photographs dead Communards. c. May – James Tissot flees Paris for London. June 14 – Camille Pissarro marries his mistress Julie Vellay in the London borough of Croydon and moves to Pontoise. August 14 – Courbet is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine for his participation in the Paris Commune; during his time in prison he produces a series of still life paintings of fruit and flowers. Summer – Claude Monet visits Zaandam. December – Monet and his wife Camille move to Argenteuil. William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti become tenants of Kelmscott Manor, which they share with Jane Morris. Marie Spartali marries William James Stillman. Edwin B. Crocker establishes the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. Works Frederic Edwin Church – The Parthenon Antonio Ciseri – Ecce Homo Confederate Monument (Liberty, Mississippi) Edgar Degas – Count Lepic and His Daughters Friedrich Drake – Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia) Thomas Eakins – Max Schmitt in a Single Scull Martin Johnson Heade – Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds Frank Holl – No Tidings from the Sea Daniel Huntington – The Narrows, Lake George Eastman Johnson – The Old Stagecoach Ivan Kramskoi – The Mermaids Édouard Manet The Harbour at Bordeaux (E.G. Bührle collection, Zürich) The Barricade (Civil War) (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)) John Everett Millais – Victory O Lord! Claude Monet – A Windmill at Zaandam Albert Joseph Moore – Sea Gulls Camille Pissarro – Lordship Lane Station, Upper Norwood Vinnie Ream – Abraham Lincoln (marble, United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.) Randolph Rogers – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Philadelphia) Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante's Dream Pandora Amanda Sidwall – Self-portrait George Blackall Simonds – The Falconer sculpture Vasily