1855 in art
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[edit] Events
- Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist's Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration.
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits Venus Anadyomene, which has taken him forty years to complete.
[edit] Awards
- Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1855 paintings
- Ford Madox Brown - The Last of England
- Gustave Courbet - The Artist's Studio (L‘Atelier du Peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Johan Fredrik Höckert - Gudstjänst i Lövmokks fjällkapell
[edit] Births
- February 25 - Frederick McCubbin, Australian painter of the Heidelberg School (d. 1917 )
- May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (d. 1942)
- July 30 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (d. 1933)
- September 8 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (d. 1921)
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (b. 1783)
- March 3 - Copley Fielding, painter (b. 1787)
- April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter (b. 1767)
- June 9 - Piotr Michałowski, Polish portrait painter (b. 1800)
- June 24 - Edward Williams, landscape painter (b. 1782)
- August 18 - Amasa Hewins - American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (b. 1795)
- September 16 - Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver (b. 1783)
- November 3 - François Rude, sculptor (b. 1784)
- date unknown
- Johann Georg Primavesi, German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (b. 1774)
- Wendela Gustafva Sparre, Swedish textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (b. 1772)
