1885 in art

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Events

• "Glasgow Boys" first exhibit collectively, at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

Works

See also: Category:1885 paintings

• Thomas Eakins - The Swimming Hole.
• Stanhope Forbes - A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach.
• Ellen Day Hale - Self Portrait (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Juan Luna - Odalisque.
• John Everett Millais - The Ruling Passion.
• Ilya Repin - Ivan the Terrible And His Son Ivan, 16 November 1581 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

Births

• January 21 - Duncan Grant, painter (d. 1978)
• February 18 - Henri Laurens, sculptor (d. 1954)
• March 31 - Pascin, painter and draftsman (d. 1930)
• April 8 - Norman Clyde, American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (d. 1972)
• April 12 - Robert Delaunay, painter (d.1941)
• May 12 - Mario Sironi, Italian painter (d.1961)
• June 27 - Arthur Lismer, painter, member of the Group of Seven (d. 1969)
• July 5 - André Lhote, painter (d. 1962)
• July 11 - Roger de La Fresnaye, painter (d. 1925)
• August 30 - Paul Gösch, German artist and architect (d. 1940)
• October 15 - Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (d. 1972)
• October 21 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter (d. 1971)
• November 14 - Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-French artist (d. 1979)

Deaths

• January 20 - Joseph Niklaus Bütler, Swiss painter (b. 1822)
• April 18 - Rudolf Eitelberger, art historian (b. 1817)
• April 29 - Ernst Joachim Förster, painter (b. 1800)
• June 13 - Carl Arnold Gonzenbach, Swiss painter (b. 1806)
• August 30 - Thomas Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1815)
• September 6 - Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Spanish artist and engineer (b. 1819)
• September 23 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (b. 1808)
• October 9 - John Bowes, art collector (b. 1811)
• December 5 - Wilhelm Ripe, painter (b. 1818)
• December 11 - James Fahey, painter (b. 1804)
• date unknown - Girolamo Masini, sculptor (b. 1840)