1865 in art

Events from the year 1865 in art.

Events February–April – Alexander Gardner photographs Abraham Lincoln (before and after his death) and his assassins. 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. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. install the stained-glass east window in the chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris and Philip Webb. Édouard Manet's painting Olympia is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy. Jean-François Millet's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France. The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum.

Works

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – An Egyptian at his Doorway Edward Armitage – The Festival of Estherhttps://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-festival-of-esther John Ballantyne – Sir Edwin Landseer in His Studio Thomas Jones Barker – The Studio of Salvator Rosa in the Mountains of the Abruzzihttps://joslyn.org/art/collection/thomas-jones-barker/9956/the-studio-of-salvator-rosa-in-the-mountains-of-the-abruzzi/ 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) Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Her Most High, Noble and Puissant Gracehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/her-most-high-noble-and-puissant-grace-37499 Frederic Edwin Church – Aurora Borealis Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Ville d'Avray Gustave Courbet Proudhon and His Children 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) Thomas Faed – The Last of the Clan William Powell Frith The Marriage of the Prince of Wales Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddonhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mary-elizabeth-maxwell-nee-braddon-155646 Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadmanhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/uncle-toby-and-the-widow-wadman-198786 Jean-Léon Gérôme – Prayer Henri Harpignies – Les Corbeaux Henry Holiday – Stained glass windows for chapel of Worcester College, Oxford Winslow Homer – The Veteran in a New Field John Callcott Horsley – A Pleasant Cornerhttps://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-pleasant-corner Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann – A Wounded Danish Soldier Edwin Landseer The Connoisseurshttps://www.rct.uk/collection/403220/the-connoisseurs-portrait-of-the-artist-with-two-dogs Lady Godiva's Prayer Andrew and George Anderson Lawson – Wellington's Column, Liverpool Benjamin Williams Leader – Autumn's Last Gleam Edward Lear – Jerusalem (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Thomas Le Clear – Interior with Portraits

Édouard Manet Angélina (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Bull-Fighting Scene (Private collection) The Mocking of Christ (Art Institute of Chicago) The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) George Hemming Mason – The Cast Shoe Adolph Menzel – The Coronation of King William I in Königsberg 1861 John Everett Millais Esther Waking Aimé Millet – Vercingétorix monument Henry Moore – The Rainbow Gustave Moreau – Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre John Phillip – The Early Career of Murillohttps://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4051691 Edward Poynter – Faithful Unto Death Val Prinsep – The Lady of the Tooti-Nameh or The legend of the parrot Illarion Pryanishnikov – Jokers: Gostiny Dvor in Moscow Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Blue Bower Alfred Sisley – Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud John Tenniel – illustrations 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 – Portrait of Franz Joseph I Thomas Woolner – Godley Statue

Births January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter (died 1911) January 23 – Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model (died 1946) 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) November 11 – Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter (died 1935) December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1925) date unknown – Adelaïde 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) March 8 – Gerard Bilders, Dutch painter (born 1838) 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)

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