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Events relating to painting
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots
A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire
The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
Queen Victoria knights her favourite painter of animals, Edwin Landseer
English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch
Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics
John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin
US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life
US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front
Young French artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style
French part-time painter Henri Rousseau becomes known as Douanier ('customs officer') Rousseau because of his paid employment
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London
Whistler paints his mother and calls the picture Arrangement in Grey and Black
Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames
French painter Edgar Degas finds inspiration in the onstage and backstage world of ballet dancers
A group of French artists, including Renoir, Monet and Degas, exhibit their work independently in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar
French critic Louis Leroy uses the term 'impressionism' to ridicule Monet's Impression, Sunrise, and unwittingly names a movement
US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers
The young daughter of an amateur archaeologist discovers the first known example of prehistoric art, in a cave at Altamira in Spain
French artist Claude Monet moves to Giverny, where he creates and paints a famous lily pond
