Events from the year 1859 in art. Events March 22 – Scottish National Gallery opens to the public in Edinburgh in neoclassical premises designed by W. H. Playfair. April 26 – William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden. Edward Burne-Jones presents them with a self-painted wardrobe. Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors. While attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, in Paris, Pissarro becomes friends with a number of younger artists also choosing to paint in a more realistic style, including Monet, Guillaumin and Cézanne. This year's Paris Salon admits photographs. The Artists Rifles set up in London as a volunteer unit of the British Army. Works Peter Nicolai Arbo – Saint Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad Thomas Jones Barker – The Relief of Lucknow Albert Bierstadt – some dates approximate Bernese Alps Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies The Wolf River, Kansas Philip Hermogenes Calderon – French Peasants Finding Their Stolen Child Frederic E. Church – The Heart of the Andes Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg – Monument to Nicholas I (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported only by the hind hooves of a rearing horse Thomas Couture – Daydreams Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (first version) Robert S. Duncanson – Landscape with Rainbow William Dyce – Beatrice (Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine) William Maw Egley – Omnibus Life in London Henri Fantin-Latour – Self-portrait Francesco Hayez – The Kiss, an expression of Italian Romanticism James Clarke Hook The Brook Luff, Boy! Arthur Hughes – The Long Engagement Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Gallic Victim (marble) Édouard Manet – The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) John Everett Millais – The Vale of Rest Jean-François Millet – The Angelus (completed version) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Elisabet Ney – Arthur Schopenhauer (sculpture) Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Bocca Baciata, the first of his portraits of single female figures (Fanny Cornforth) John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Thoughts of the Past James McNeill Whistler – Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge Births January 28 – Ambrosia Tønnesen, Norwegian sculptor (died 1948) May 25 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait, and genre painter (died 1944) June 16 – Paja Jovanović, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters, with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić (died 1957) June 17 – Walter Osborne, Irish Impressionist painter (died 1903) August 22 – John Henry