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1859
 
   
US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life      
1861
 
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Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War       
1866
 
    
US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front       
1875
 
    
US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers       
1878
 
    
English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces       
1886
 
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The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour       
1890
 
    
In How the Other Half Lives David Riis alerts middle-class New Yorkers to the appalling slum conditions in lower Manhattan       
1902
 
    
Alfred Stieglitz and other US photographers launch the Photo-Secession movement       
1905
 
   
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London      
Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941
Tate Britain
1905
 
     
US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York