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Overview of the events of 1866 in art

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Events from the year 1866 in art.

Events

July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
Following the death of Charles Lock Eastlake, Edwin Landseer is elected as the new President of the Royal Academy. After Landseer refuses the position, the portraitist Francis Grant becomes president
Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name.
Théophile Thoré-Bürger publishes the first catalogue raisonné of Vermeer's paintings, in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, bringing him to international prominence after nearly two centuries.

January 17 – Joseph Bernard, French sculptor (died 1931)
January 23 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and designer (died 1952)
March 17 – Alice Austen, American photographer (died 1952)
June 13 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (died 1929)
June 16 – Joaquín Clausell, Mexican impressionist landscape painter, lawyer and political activist (died 1935)
July 3 – Ambroise Vollard, French art dealer (died 1939)
July 14 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (died 1925)
July 19 – John Duncan, Scottish painter (died 1945)
July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (died 1943)
August 9 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian-born sculptor and painter (died 1929)
August 13 – Jadwiga Golcz, Polish photographer (died 1936)
August 31 – Georg Jensen, Danish silversmith (died 1935)
October 2 – Charles Ricketts, English designer (died 1931)
unknown date – Milly Childers, English painter (died 1922)

January 15 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (born 1798)
January 17 – George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (born 1790)
January 27 – John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (born 1790)
January 30 – Léon Bonvin, French painter an watercolorist (born 1834)
March 23 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (born 1814)
April 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (born 1792)
April 3 – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (born 1814)
April 7 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (born 1812)
April 17 – Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (born 1792)
April 24 – Giuseppe Tominz, Austrian portrait painter (born 1790)
April 26 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-born painter and astronomer (born 1802)
June 8 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (born 1795)
June 14 – John Hayes, English portrait-painter (born 1786)
August 9 – Raffaello Sernesi, Italian painter and medallist (born 1838)
September 10 – David Hay, British interior decorator (born 1798)
November 23 – Paul Gavarni (Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), French caricaturist (born 1801/1804)
December 20 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1796)
date unknown – Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (born 1798)

Duparc, F. J.; Wheelock, A. K. (1995). Johannes Vermeer. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. pp. 42, 59. ISBN 0-300-06558-2.