1862 in art

Births

• March 17 – Charles Laval, French painter (died 1894)
• March 24 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter (died 1951)^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928
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• 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)

Deaths

• 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)^[6]
• 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)
• William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789
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• 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)

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