Thor's Fight with the Giants Births January 16 – Edward Gordon Craig, English theatrical designer (died 1966) January 25 – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, English painter (died 1945) February 25 – Alice Bailly Swiss painter and multimedia artist (died 1938) March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (died 1944) April 18 – Beta Vukanović, Serbian painter and centenarian (died 1972) August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, English painter and illustrator (died 1898) Deaths April 2 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor and painter of portraits and historic scenes (born 1791) April 10 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (born 1814) May 24 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794) August 8 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (born 1799) September 30 - Jakob Alt, German landscape painter (born 1789) October 29 – Thomas Combe, English printer and patron of the arts (born 1796) November 5 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (born 1783) November 13 - Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English portrait painter (born 1793) November 25 - John Partridge, British artist and portrait painter (born 1789) December 23 – George Catlin, American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796) References Years of the 19th century in art 1870s in art