Gare Saint Lazare Camille Pissarro The Côte des Bœufs at L’Hermitage The Garden at Pontoise Arthur Quartley – Early Moonlight Naragansett Bay Briton Rivière Lazarus Sympathy John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Love and the Maiden James Tissot The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth) Hide and Seek Portsmouth Dockyard Julius von Blaas – Fox Hunt in the Campagna Anton von Werner – Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ("The Proclamation of the German Empire", original version; destroyed in World War II) James McNeill Whistler Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (decorative scheme) Nocturne (c. 1875–77, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow) Sculpture Frederic Leighton – Athlete Wrestling with a Python Auguste Rodin – The Age of Bronze The Defenders of Fort Moultrie Births January 2 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian watercolourist (died 1906) January 26 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch-born painter (died 1968) February 19 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962) April 15 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (died 1947) June 3 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (died 1953) July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (died 1939) August 4 – Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (died 1970) August 7 – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, Scottish painter (died 1931) August 18 – Herbert Barnard John Everett, English marine artist (died 1949) December 27 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1934) Deaths January 9 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher, and architect (born 1798) February 13 – Auguste Hüssener, German engraver and miniature painter (born 1789) March 31 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer (born 1796) June 4 – William Edward Frost, English painter (born 1810) August 5 – Philipp Foltz, painter (born 1793) September 16 – Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (born 1796) September 17 – William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer (born 1800) November 12 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (born 1819) December 18 – Philipp Veit, painter (born 1819) December 31 – Gustave Courbet, painter (born 1819) References Years of the 19th century in art 1870s in art