1863 in art

Exhibitions

• First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.

Works

• Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus
• Édouard Manet - Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris); Olympia (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

• April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement (d. 1957)
• June 16 - Arturo Michelena, painter (d. 1898)
• November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1935)
• December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)

Deaths

• January 17 - Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (b. 1789)
• February 16 - Alvan Fisher, United States's pioneer in landscape painting and genre works......
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