1886 in art

Events

• William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design in Greenwich Village.

Awards

Works

• Albert Bierstadt - Storm in the Rocky Mountains
• William Merritt Chase - Hattie
• Edgar Degas - The Tub (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Georges-Pierre Seurat - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte completed (Art Institute of Chicago)

Births

• 1 March - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (d.1980).
• 19 April - Hermine David, French painter (d.1970).
• 1 September - Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (d.1973).
• 16 September - Jean Arp, artist and writer (d.1966).
• 8 December - Diego Rivera, painter and muralist (d.1957).

Deaths

• January 7 - Richard Dadd, painter (b. 1817)
• May 19 - Arthur Quartley - American painter (b. 1839)
• June 29 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (b. 1824)
• July 21 - Karl von Piloty, painter (b. 1826)
• August 25 - Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author (b. 1823)
• September 23 - Thomas Webster, painter (b. 1800)
• November 20 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (b.1804)
• Asher Brown Durand, painter of the Hudson River School (b. 1796)
• Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author (b. 1823)