1865 in art

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Events from the year 1865 in art.

Events

July 21 – Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place, London.
Ford Madox Brown completes his painting Work after thirteen years.
Édouard Manet's painting Olympia is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy.^[1]
Jean-François Millet's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France.^[2]
The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum.

Works

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – An Egyptian at his Doorway
Albert Bierstadt
- Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
- Staubbach Falls, near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Ford Madox Brown – Work
Constantino Brumidi – The Apotheosis of Washington (fresco in United States Capitol rotunda)
Augustus Burke – Connemara Girl
Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris – The Crucifixion (stained-glass window for chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Frederic Edwin Church – Aurora Borealis
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Ville d'Avray
Gustave Courbet
- Portrait of Countess Karoly
- Le ruisseau noir
Honoré Daumier – The Third-Class Carriage (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
Edgar Degas – Medieval War Scene, his first painting exhibited at the Salon (Paris)
William Powell Frith – Mary Elizabeth Maxwell (née Braddon)
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Prayer
Henri Harpignies – Les Corbeaux
Henry Holiday – Stained glass windows for chapel of Worcester College, Oxford
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann – A Wounded Danish Soldier
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer – Lady Godiva's Prayer (approximate date)
Andrew and G. A. Lawson – Wellington's Column, Liverpool
Benjamin Williams Leader – Autumn's Last Gleam
Edward Lear – Jerusalem (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Édouard Manet
- Angélina (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Bull-Fighting Scene (Private collection)
- The Mocking of Christ (Art Institute of Chicago)
  Édouard Manet - The Mocking of Christ
- The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
George Hemming Mason – The Cast Shoe
John Everett Millais
- Esther
- Waking
Henry Moore – The Rainbow
Gustave Moreau – Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre
Edward Poynter – Faithful unto Death
Illarion Pryanishnikov – Jokers: Gostiny Dvor in Moscow
Alfred Sisley – Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud
John Tenniel – illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Tenniel illustration to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
S. S. Teulon – Buxton Memorial Fountain (Westminster)
James McNeill Whistler – Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain
Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Emperor Franz Joseph
Thomas Woolner – Godley Statue

Births

January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter (died 1911)
April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (died 1931)
May 5 – Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (died 1892)
June 25 – Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School (died 1929)
June 26 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian (died 1959)
June 28 – David Young Cameron, Scottish painter (died 1945)
August 2 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (died 1955)
August 20 – Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher (died 1951)
September 23 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter (died 1938)
December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1925)
date unknown – Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (died 1929)

Deaths

January 10 – William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector (born 1795)
January 12 – Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (born 1786)
January 19 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer (born 1822)
January 21 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (born 1793)
January 23 – Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (born 1797)
February 21 – Constant Troyon, French painter (born 1810)
April 21 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of murals and frescoes (born 1798)
April 28 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (born 1794)
June 18 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (born 1806)
July 11 – Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter (born 1788)
August 14 – Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter (born 1804)
August 23 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (born 1793)
September 17 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (born 1796)
September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England (born 1795)
September 29 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (born 1787)
November 1 – Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (born 1792)
December 24 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (born 1793)
date unknown
- Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (born 1797)
- Michael Hanhart, English lithographer and chromolithographer (born 1788)

References

^ King, Ross (2006). The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism. New York: Waller & Company. pp. 105–108. ISBN 0-8027-1466-8.
^ Farthing, Stephen (2006). 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-1-84403-563-2.

[1] King, Ross (2006). The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism. New York: Waller & Company. pp. 105–108. ISBN 0-8027-1466-8.

[2] Farthing, Stephen (2006). 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-1-84403-563-2.

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