1864 in art

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Events

• January 30 - National Gallery of Ireland opens to the public in Dublin in a building designed by Francis Fowke based on early plans by Charles Lanyon.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Louis-Ernest Barrias

Works

Whistler - The Little White Girl

• Ramon Martí Alsina - The great day of Girona
• Francis Bicknell Carpenter - First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Souvenir de Mortefontaine
• Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
• Honoré Daumier - The Third-Class Carriage (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix
• Frederic Leighton - The Painter's Honeymoon
• John Frederick Lewis - Captive Dove
• Édouard Manet
  • Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges ("The Angels at Christ's Tomb") (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Branch of White Peonies and Pruning Shears (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Dead Toreador (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Women at the Races (Cincinnati Art Museum)
• Jean-François Millet - Shepherdess with Her Flock (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Frederick Sandys - Morgan le Fay
• James McNeill Whistler - Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Carlota of Belgium
  • Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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  29 January 1864: "Annie, my first success", Julia Margaret Cameron's first satisfactory print

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  Sadness: Ellen Terry photographed in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron

Births

• March 10 - Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (d. 1897)
• March 29 - Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (d. 1909)
• May 15 - Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (d. 1916)
• November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
• December 8 - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (d. 1943)
• date unknown - J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (d. 1953)

Deaths

• January 3 - William Behnes, English sculptor (b. 1795)

• January 27 - Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (b. 1784)
• February 10 - William Henry Hunt, English water-color painter (b. 1790)
• February 14 - William Dyce, painter (b. 1806)
• March 19 - Alexandre Calame, painter (b. 1810)
• March 21 - Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (b. 1809)
• June 1 - John Watson Gordon, painter (b. 1788)
• June 2 - Caroline Bardua, German painter (b. 1781)
• July 27 - Joseph Patrick Haverty - Irish painter (b. 1794)
• August 7 - Janez Puhar, painter and photographer (b. 1814)
• August 10 - Thomas Baker "of Leamington", landscape painter (b. 1809)
• November 25 - David Roberts, Scottish painter (b. 1796)
• December 24 - Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (b. 1798)
• date unknown
  • James Frothingham, American painter (b. 1786)
  • William Guy Wall - American painter of Irish birth (b. 1792)