French painter (died 1958) May 10 – Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 1954) July 6 – Ethel Sands, American-born painter (died 1962) July 7 – Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (died 1942) October 12 – Nadežda Petrović, Serbian Fauvist painter (died 1915) December 5 – Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer was born in England (died 1947) date unknown – Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (died 1961) approximate date – Olowe of Ise, Yoruba wood sculptor (died c. 1938) Deaths March 25 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (born 1810) April 17 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (born 1783) April 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1809) May 13 – Konstantin Danil, renowned Serbian painter (born 1798) May 19 – Charles Lucy, English painter (born 1814) July 8 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (born 1805) October 2 – Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (born 1881) October 9 – John Evan Thomas, Welsh sculptor (born 1810) November 25 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (born 1792) November 27 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English historical, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (born 1793) December 9 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1791) date unknown Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in both the Biedermeier and Nazarene movement (born 1808) Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (born 1813) Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver (born 1785) References Years of the 19th century in art 1870s in art