Events from the year 1862 in art.

• May 1–November 1 – 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London. Notable artistic displays include a large picture gallery; work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company; and an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style.^[1] Morris designs his first wallpaper, Trellis.
• Claude Monet becomes a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he meets Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley, sharing new approaches to painting en plein air.

• Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – The Pearl and the Wave
• Albert Bierstadt
  • The Fishing Fleet
  • Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War
• Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Isted Lion (bronze)
• George Price Boyce – At Binsey, near Oxford
• William Burges - Great Bookcase^[2]
• Gustave Courbet – Femme nue couchée
• Thomas Crawford (posthumous) – Statue of Freedom (bronze for dome of United States Capitol)^[3]
• Edgar Degas - Young Woman with Ibis (completed)
• Eugène Delacroix – Ovid among the Scythians (second version)
• Augustus Egg – The Travelling Companions
• Anselm Feuerbach – Iphigenia (first version)
• William Powell Frith – The Railway Station
• Walter Greaves – Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-Race Day
• Arthur Hughes – Home from Sea (reworking of The Mother's Grave)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Turkish Bath (original form)
• Eastman Johnson – A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
• Edward Lear – Philæ and Beachy Head (pair of paintings)
• Édouard Manet
  • Music in the Tuileries (National Gallery, London)
  • Lola de Valence (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Old Musician
  • Mlle. Victorine Meurent in the Costume of an Espada (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • The Street Singer (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Robert Braithwaite Martineau – The Last Day in the Old Home
• Jan Matejko – Stańczyk
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – Napoleon I in 1814
• Jean-François Millet – L'homme à la houe ("The Man With the Hoe")
• William Morris – Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
• Moritz Daniel Oppenheim – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
• Moritz von Schwind – The Honeymoon
• James Tissot – The Return of the Prodigal Son
• G. F. Watts – approximate date
  • Lady Margaret Beaumont and her Daughter
  • Sisters
  • Edith Villiers
• James McNeill Whistler
  • The Last of Old Westminster
  • Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

• 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]
• July 29 – Robert Reid, American Impressionist painter (died 1928)
• 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)

• 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)
• August 7 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (born 1789)
• 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)