# 1865 in art

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.
* 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
* 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)
* Thomas Faed – The Last of the Clan
* William Powell Frith
** Mary Elizabeth Maxwell (née Braddon)
** The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
* 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
* 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)
* 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
* 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 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)
* 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)
* 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)