1863 in art

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First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.

April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement (d. 1957)
June 16 - Arturo Michelena, painter (d. 1898)
November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1935)
December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)

January 17 - Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (b. 1789)
February 16 - Alvan Fisher, United States's pioneer in landscape painting and genre works (b. 1792)
April 4 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, painter and engraver (b. 1790)
June 5 - Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (b. 1791)
July 7 - William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (b. 1786)
August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (b. 1798)
September 19 - Joseph Nigg - Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (b. 1782)
December 10 - Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (b. 1797)
December 4 - James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (b. 1798)
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- Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (b. 1781)
- Karl Ludwig Frommel - German landscape painter and engraver (b. 1789)
- Maria Martin - American watercolor painter (b. 1796)