1864 in art

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.

February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later.

December 30 – Julia Margaret Cameron sends John Herschel an album of her first year's photography including her iconic portrait of him.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is established as the Vassar College Art Gallery on the women's college campus in Poughkeepsie, New York (in the Hudson Valley) including the Magoon Collection of Hudson River School paintings donated by Matthew Vassar.

Stanisław Chlebowski takes up a post as master painter to Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul.

The National Gallery in London acquires The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius from Lord Taunton.

Awards

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

Works

Ramon Martí Alsina – The Great Day of Girona

Frédéric Bazille – The Pink Dress (approximate date)

François Bocion – Steamer on Lake Geneva – Evening Effect

Ford Madox Brown – King René's Honeymoon

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)

Thomas Farrell – Memorial statue to John McNeil Boyd (St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)

Anselm Feuerbach – Paolo and Francesca

Sir Edwin Landseer – Man Proposes, God Disposes

Henri Fantin-Latour – Homage to Delacroix

Frederic Leighton – The Painter's Honeymoon

John Frederick Lewis – Captive Dove, Cairo

Daniel Maclise – The Death of Nelson (wall painting for Palace of Westminster and oil study)

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)

Peonies (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

The Dead Toreador (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Women at the Races (Cincinnati Art Museum)

Jan Matejko

Kazanie Skargi

Polonia

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – 1814: The Campaign in France (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Jean-François Millet – Shepherdess with Her Flock (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Gustave Moreau – Oedipus and the Sphinx

Erskine Nicol – Irish Emigrants Waiting for a Train

William Blake Richmond – The Sisters

Frederick Sandys – Morgan le Fay

Simeon Solomon – Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene

G. F. Watts – Choosing

James McNeill Whistler

Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen

Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl

Wapping

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Carlota of Belgium

Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

March 10 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (died 1897)

March 29 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (died 1909)

May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (died 1916)

May 22 – Willy Stöwer, German marine artist (died 1931)

July 8 – F. Holland Day, American photographer (died 1933)

October 7 – Harrington Mann, Scottish-born portrait painter and decorative artist (died 1937)

November 24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (died 1901)

December 3 – Anna Boberg, Swedish artist (died 1935)

December 8 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (died 1943)

December 30 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (died 1944)

date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (died 1953)

Deaths

January 3 – William Behnes, English sculptor (born 1795)

January 6 - James Frothingham, American painter (born 1786)

January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)

January 29 – William Cowen, English landscape painter (born 1791)

February 10 – William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter (born 1790)

February 14 – William Dyce, painter (born 1806)

March 2 – Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome (born 1785)

March 19 – Alexandre Calame, painter (born 1810)

March 21 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (born 1809)

June 1 – John Watson Gordon, painter (born 1788)

June 2 – Caroline Bardua, German painter (born 1781)

June 8 – Stephen Poyntz Denning, English portraitist, artist and curator (born 1795-1798)

July 27 – Joseph Patrick Haverty – Irish painter (born 1794)

August 7 – Janez Puhar, painter and photographer (born 1814)

August 10 – Thomas Baker "of Leamington", landscape painter (born 1809)

November 15 - Abel Dimier, French sculptor (born 1794)

November 20 - Albert Newsam, American artist (born 1809)

November 25 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (born 1796)

December 24 – Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (born 1798)

date unknown

Carlo Restallino, Italian-born painter and engraver (born 1776)

William Guy Wall, Irish painter, worked in the United States (born 1792)