Events

• John Ruskin meets Rose la Touche.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) - Jean-Jacques Henner

Works

• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Self-portrait at the Age of 78 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
• Édouard Manet - The Boy with Cherries (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon)

Births

• January 6 - Albert Henry Munsell, American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system (d. 1918)
• January 10 - Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (d. 1929)
• March 13 - Maximilien Luce, painter (d. 1941)
• June 20 - Medardo Rosso, sculptor (d. 1928)
• September 12 - Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (d. 1921)
• October 30 - Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (d. 1927)
• November 30 - Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (d. 1938)

Deaths

• June 15 - Ary Scheffer, painter (b. 1795)
• July 15 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (b. 1806)
• John Hogan, sculptor (b. 1800)
• Joseph Stieler, German painter (b. 1781)
• Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (b. 1797)
• Anton Petter - Austrian painter especially of battle scenes (b. 1781)