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1865
Realism · 1850–1873
Lincoln is assassinated; the Civil War ends
Mostly Realism. Ordinary life painted without flattery. Every country had its realists.
1865Realism
Realism · Impressionism · Academic art
- That yearLewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Monet was 25
- That yearA monk named Gregor Mendel presented his experiments with pea plants. Nobody noticed for 35 years.
- Rigalt was 51
- Also that yearHomer painted The Veteran in a New Field.
- Peale was 81
- That yearManet painted The Reading.
- Sisley was 26
- Around that timeBazille painted L'Ambulance improvisée.
- Corot was about 69
- Back thenQueen Victoria was on the British throne; she would reign 63 years.
- Von Wright was 60
- Painted a year after Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, in the middle of the war: the first time the U.S. government set wild land aside for everyone.
- Bierstadt was 35
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- The same yearThe Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in the United States.
- La Farge was 30
- About thenSo many paintings were rejected by the Paris Salon that Napoleon III let the rejects have a show of their own: the Salon des Refusés.
- Corot was about 69
- That yearJoseph Lister first used carbolic acid to keep a wound from infection.
- Daubigny was 48
- About thenThe U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for about two cents an acre.
- Brookes was about 49
- The same yearTolstoy began publishing War and Peace in a Moscow magazine.
- Courbet was 46
- The same yearManet's Olympia caused such an uproar at the Salon that guards were posted beside it.
- Degas was 31
- In those yearsNapoleon III ruled France's Second Empire.
- Corot was 69
- A Civil War sea battle, fought off the coast of France at Cherbourg in June 1864. Manet painted it within weeks.
- Manet was 33
- In 1863The world's first underground railway opened in London, pulled by steam trains.
- Landseer was 63
- In Åberg's lifetimeHenry Morton Stanley found David Livingstone: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- Painted the year the war ended and Lincoln was killed: a soldier home again, cutting wheat with a scythe.
- Homer was 29
- Also that yearDegas painted A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers.
- Pissarro was 35
- That yearLincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre, five days after Lee surrendered.
- Cézanne was 26
- In 1863Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. It took about two minutes.
- Church was 39
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- The same yearHomer painted The Bright Side.
- Durand was 69
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- MeanwhileBaron Haussmann was rebuilding Paris with wide boulevards.
- Ziem was 44
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- That yearFélix Vallotton was born in Switzerland.
- Boklund was 48