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Events
- Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe.
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Bargain
- Daniel Huntington - Chocorua
- Édouard Manet
- Portrait of M. and Mme. Auguste Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Spanish Singer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Births
- January 29 - William Jacob Baer, painter (d. 1941)
- May 31 - Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (d. 1942)
- June 18 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian Impressionist painter (d. 1930)
- September 7 - Grandma Moses, folk artist, painter, (d. 1961)
- Iris Nampeyo - potter, ceramic artist (d. 1942)
Deaths
- April 28 - Jakob Guttmann, sculptor (b. 1811)
- August 22 - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (b. 1803)
- Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (b. 1804)
- Juan Antonio Rivera, historical painter (b. unknown)
- Louis Hersent, French painter (b. 1777)
- Rembrandt Peale, American artist (b. 1778)
- Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (b. 1801)
