Events from the year 1883 in the arts

• April – Exhibition of Impressionist paintings opens at the Dowdeswell Gallery in London.
• 20 April – Claude Monet moves to the house in Giverny which will be his main residence for the rest of his life.
• 28 October – Les XX established in Brussels by Octave Maus.
• J.-K. Huysmans publishes L'Art moderne.

• Michael Ancher – Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne ("The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes")
• Marie Bashkirtseff
  • Autumn
  • The Umbrella
• Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel, 3rd version)
• Gustave Caillebotte – Portrait of Henri Cordier
• William Merritt Chase
  • Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
  • Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
• John Collier – Marion Collier^[1]
• Pierre Auguste Cot – The Storm
• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret – Hamlet and the Gravediggers
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
  • The Dream
  • Ludus Pro Patria
• Luke Fildes – The Village Wedding
• William Powell Frith – A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer
• James Guthrie
  • A Hind's Daughter
  • To Pastures New
• Sydney Prior Hall – The three daughters of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
• Ivan Kramskoi – Portrait of an Unknown Woman
• John Lavery – The Bridge at Grez Archived 2022-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Benjamin Williams Leader – The Valley of the Llugwy
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Labour (sculpture)
• Konstantin Makovsky – A Boyar Wedding Feast
• Jacek Malczewski – The Prisoners
• Claude Monet – Stormy Sea in Étretat
• William Morris – Strawberry Thief textile design
• Walter Osborne – Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
• Paul Philippoteaux – Gettysburg Cyclorama
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
  • By the Seashore
  • Dance at Bougival
  • Dance in the Country
  • The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies)
• Georges Rochegrosse - Vitellius Dragged Through the Streets of Rome by the Popoulus^[2]
• Ilya Repin – Religious Procession in Kursk Province
• William Wetmore Story – Chief Justice John Marshall (bronze)
• James Tissot
  • The Bridesmaid
  • A Little Nimrod
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Self-portrait in a mirror
• Jan van Beers – Portrait of a Young Woman
• Henry Van Brunt and Frank M. Howe – William Washington Gordon Monument
• Vincent van Gogh
  • Cottages (continuing series)
  • Peasant Character Studies (continuing series)
  • Bulb Fields
  • Cows in the Meadow (lost)
  • Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (watercolor)
  • Farm with Stacks of Peat
  • Farmhouse Among Trees
  • Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight
  • Footbridge across a Ditch
  • Landscape with a Church at Twilight
  • Landscape with Dunes
  • Landscape with Trees (watercolor)
  • Landscape with Wheelbarrow (watercolor)
  • Marshy Landscape
  • Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg
  • Peatery in Drenthe
  • Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill
  • A Wind-Beaten Tree
• Fritz von Uhde – Summer Resort
• Erik Werenskiold
  • September
  • Shepherds at Tåtøy
• W. L. Wyllie – Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide

• 3 February – Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (died 1970).
• 18 February – Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971).
• 12 April
  • Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (died 1937)
  • Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (died 1976).
• 24 June – Jean Metzinger, French painter and art theorist (died 1956).
• 16 July – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (died 1965).
• 31 July – Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (died 1970).
• 19 August – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (died 1972).
• 20 August – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter (died 1952).
• 14 September – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1908).
• 9 November – Charles Demuth, American painter (died 1935).
• 4 December – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (died 1963).
• 24 December – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (died 1980).
• 26 December – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (died 1955).
• date unknown – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (died 1976).

• January 12 – Clark Mills, American sculptor (born 1810)
• January 19 – Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor (born 1805)
• January 23 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (born 1832)
• February 26 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (born 1826)
• April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832; died following amputation)
• July 14 – Edward Calvert, English painter and printmaker (born 1799)
• August 19 – József Borsos, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (born 1821)
• November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter (born 1829)
• December 11 – Richard Doyle, British illustrator (born 1824)^[3]