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Overview of the events of 1862 in art

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Events from the year 1862 in art.

Events

May 1–November 1 – 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London. Notable artistic displays include a large picture gallery; work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company; and an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style. Morris designs his first wallpaper, Trellis.
November 3 – First appearance in print of the term Macchiaioli for the group of revolutionary young Italian painters, in a hostile review published in the journal Gazzetta del Popolo.
Claude Monet becomes a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he meets Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley, sharing new approaches to painting en plein air.

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March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951)
April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (died 1938)
June 14 – Herbert Dicksee, English painter (died 1942)
July 10 – Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (died 1946)
July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (died 1918)
July 29 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928)
August 15 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (died 1957)
September 12 – Carl Eytel, German American artist (died 1925)
October 26 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (died 1944)
November 25 – Katharine Adams, English bookbinder (died 1952)
December 3 – Charles Grafly, American sculptor (died 1929)

January 3 – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor (born 1777)
February 11 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overdose of laudanum (born 1829)
February 15 – Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
March 18 – Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably painted Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (born 1785)
March 19 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter (born 1789)
May – Alexandre-François Caminade, French religious and portrait painter (born 1783)
May 14 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (born 1787)
July 7 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (born 1807)
July 17 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (born 1780)
August 7 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789)
August 10 – Erin Corr, Irish engraver (born 1793)
August 28 – Albrecht Adam, German painter of battles and horses (born 1786)
September 20 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1792)
October 29 – John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniaturist (born 1784)
Undated – Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner (born 1789)

Halen, Widar (1990). Christopher Dresser. Phaidon. p. 34. ISBN 0-7148-2952-8.
Broude, Norma (1987). The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-300-03547-0.
Building News and Architectural Review. The Proprietors. 1862. p. 100.
The United States Congress & Capitol: A Walking Tour Handbook. U.S. Senate. 2002. p. 56.
Faith Andrews Bedford; Frank Weston Benson (1 January 1994). Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist. Random House Incorporated. pp. 16–21. ISBN 978-0-8478-1609-5.
Allan S. Janik; Hans Veigl (6 October 1998). Wittgenstein in Vienna: A biographical excursion through the city and its history. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 149. ISBN 978-3-211-83077-2.
Jan Marsh; Elizabeth Siddall (1991). Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. Ruskin Gallery. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-86321-135-5.