1885 in art
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Events
- July 13 – New building for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, designed by Pierre Cuypers, opens.
- August – First public display of works by Vincent van Gogh, in the windows of the art dealer Leurs at The Hague.
- "Glasgow Boys" first exhibit collectively, at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
- Aberdeen Art Gallery opens in Scotland.
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery opens in England.
- The Guildhall Art Gallery opens in the City of London.
- The E. B. Crocker Art Gallery is presented to the people of Sacramento, California.
Awards
- John Everett Millais is granted a baronetcy in the United Kingdom, the first artist to be honoured with a hereditary title.
Works
- Michael Ancher – Vil han klare pynten ("Will he Round the Point?")
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Young Shepherdess
- Frank Bramley
- Everyone His Own Tale
- Primrose Day
- Ernest Christophe – La Fatalité (sculpture)
- Albert Dubois-Pillet (some dates approximate)
- Thomas Eakins – The Swimming Hole
- Albert Edelfelt – Portrait of Louis Pasteur
- Henri Fantin-Latour – Around the Piano
- Stanhope Forbes – A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach
- Jean-Léon Gérôme – The great bath of Brousse
- Ellen Day Hale – Self Portrait (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Juan Luna
- Jan Matejko – Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tuhaj Bej near Lviv
- John Everett Millais – The Ruling Passion
- Charles William Mitchell – Hypatia
- Claude Monet – The Cliffs at Etretat
- Henri-Paul Motte – The Fiancee of Belus
- Walter Osborne – Feeding the Chickens
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon)
- Ilya Repin – Ivan the Terrible And His Son Ivan, 16 November 1581 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
- Therese Schwartze – Three girls from the Amsterdam Orphanage
- Marie Spartali Stillman – Love's Messenger
- Marianne Stokes – Homeless
- James Tissot
- The Bridesmaid
- The Shop Girl
- William Greene Turner – Oliver Perry Monument (bronze, Newport, Rhode Island)
- Vincent van Gogh
- The Potato Eaters (April)
- Cottages series
- Old Church Tower at Nuenen series (continued)
- Peasant Character Studies
- Still life paintings (continuing)
- Two Paintings of Amsterdam (October)
- Hubert von Herkomer – Hard Times
- John William Waterhouse – Saint Eulalia
- George Frederic Watts – Love and Life
- W. L. Wyllie
- A Dying Giant
- Storm and Sunshine: A Battle with the Elements
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Births
- January 21 – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (died 1978)
- February 18 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor (died 1954)
- February 24 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ('Witkacy'), Polish painter, playwright and novelist (suicide 1939)
- March 3 – Cecil Thomas, English bronze sculptor and medallist (died 1976)
- March 31 – Pascin, Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (suicide 1930)
- April 8 – Norman Clyde, American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (died 1972)
- April 12 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (died 1941)
- May 12 – Mario Sironi, Italian painter (died 1961)
- June 27 – Arthur Lismer, English-born Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven (died 1969)
- July 5 – André Lhote, French painter and sculptor (died 1962)
- July 11 – Roger de La Fresnaye, French cubist painter (died 1925)
- August 15 – Nancy Cox-McCormack, American portrait sculptor (died 1967)
- August 26 – Gwen Raverat, née Darwin, English wood engraver (died 1957)
- August 30 – Paul Gösch, German artist and architect (died 1940)
- September 12 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German propaganda photographer (died 1957)
- October 15 – Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (died 1972)
- October 21 – Jan Altink, Dutch painter (died 1971)
- November 14 – Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-French artist (died 1979)
- date unknown
- Leonardo Dudreville, Italian painter (died 1975)
- Branko Radulović, Serbian painter (died 1916)
Deaths
- January 20 – Joseph Niklaus Bütler, Swiss painter (born 1822)
- April 18 – Rudolf Eitelberger, art historian (born 1817)
- April 29 – Ernst Joachim Förster, painter (born 1800)
- June 13 – Carl Arnold Gonzenbach, Swiss painter (born 1806)
- July 23 - Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (born 1820)
- August 30 – Thomas Thornycroft, sculptor (born 1815)
- September 6 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Spanish artist and engineer (born 1819)
- September 23 – Carl Spitzweg, painter (born 1808)
- October 9 – John Bowes, art collector (born 1811)
- December 5 – Wilhelm Ripe, painter (born 1818)
- December 11 – James Fahey, painter (born 1804)
- date unknown – Girolamo Masini, sculptor (born 1840)