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.

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

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 George Anderson 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)

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

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)