Events from the year 1873 in art. Events Early – Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is arrested in a public urinal in London and convicted and fined for gross indecency. May – Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie. World exhibition in Vienna. Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently. The collection forming the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is moved to the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia. New Accademia delle Arti del Disegno established in Florence. Leslie Ward, as "Spy", begins producing caricatures for the British magazine Vanity Fair. Michelangelo's statue of David is removed from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to the Galleria dell'Accademia. Works William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins (original watercolour version) Alexandre Cabanel – La Comtesse de Keller Gustave Caillebotte – Nude woman lying on a couch Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Letter From Daddy Walter Crane – Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Last Cartridges (Les dernières cartouches) Edgar Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans Hans Gude – Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten Winslow Homer – The Boat Builders William Holman Hunt – The Shadow of Death Rudolf Koller – Gotthardpost Ivan Kramskoi Ivan Shishkin Leo Tolstoy Édouard Manet Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art) The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Jan Matejko – Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God Pál Szinyei Merse – Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest) Claude Monet The Artist's House at Argenteuil Camille Monet on a Garden Bench Poppies Blooming Albert Joseph Moore – Follow-my-Leader Camille Pissarro – Self-portrait Ilya Repin – Barge Haulers on the Volga John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day Heinrich Strack – Berlin Victory Column James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Births January 28 – Charles Sims, English painter (suicide 1928) February 14 – Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (died 1942) March 13 – Léon Delagrange, French sculptor and aviator (died 1910) April 3 – Rista Vukanović, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta Vukanović (died 1918) April 4 – Élie Faure, French art historian (died 1937) April 24 – André Bauchant,