Events from the year 1869 in art. Events January 31 – The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts publishes its manifesto. July 30 – Vincent van Gogh starts his apprenticeship with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague (in which his uncle is a partner). December 4 – The weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic is first published by engraver William Luson Thomas in London. Works Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Wine Shop Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrie Thomas Armstrong – The Hay Field Frédéric Bazille – Scène d'été Knud Bergslien – Birkebeiners on Skis Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child Albert Bierstadt Emigrants Crossing the Plains Mount Hood William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Elder Sister The Knitting Girl Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux – La Danse (sculpture for Palais Garnier, Paris) Albert Charles Challen – Mary Seacole Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Femme Lisant (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Gustave Courbet – The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Edgar Degas – Interior (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Lowes Cato Dickinson – Portrait of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Gustave Doré – Andromeda Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – The supper of Beaucaire, 28 July 1793 Luke Fildes – Houseless and Hungry (engraving for The Graphic) Atkinson Grimshaw – Autumn Glory: The Old Mill George P. A. Healy – Abraham Lincoln Jean-Jacques Henner – Woman on a Black Divan Daniel Huntington – Sowing the Word Frederick Richard Lee – Morning in the Meadows Frederic Leighton – Daedalus and Icarus Édouard Manet The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection) The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art) The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (Kunsthalle Mannheim) Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island) Claude Monet Bathers at La Grenouillère La Grenouillère The Magpie Albert Joseph Moore The Quartette A Venus Gustave Moreau – Europa and the Bull Mihály Munkácsy – Last Day of a Condemned Man Erskine Nicol – A Nip Against the Cold Edward Poynter – Saint George for England (mosaic for Palace of Westminster) Thomas Stuart Smith – The Pipe of Freedom Thomas Thornycroft – Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster (marble, Grosvenor Park, Chester, England) W. L. Wyllie – Dawn after a Storm Births January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, painter and designer (died 1907) February 7 – Xavier Martínez,