1886 in art

Events

• April - New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris.
• William Merritt Chase founds Parsons The New School for Design in Greenwich Village.
• P. H. Emerson publishes his first photographic book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.

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...... ...
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