# 1875 in art

Events from the year 1875 in art.

## Events

* Claude Monet finishes painting his Snow at Argenteuil series.
* Foundation of the Art Students League of New York.
* Foundation of the Ruskin Gallery as the Museum of St George in a cottage in Walkley on the outskirts of Sheffield in the north of England by John Ruskin.

## Works

* William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Flora and Zephyr
* Gustave Caillebotte
** The Floor-scrapers
** The Gardeners
** The Yerres, effect of rain
** Young Man at his Window (René Caillebotte)
* Julia Margaret Cameron – 'So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur (photograph)
* Paul Cézanne - L'Après-midi à Naples
* Józef Chełmoński – Indian Summer
* Ernest Crofts – The Battle Of Ligny
* Edgar Degas – Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde)
* Thomas Eakins – The Gross Clinic
* Atkinson Grimshaw – Liverpool from Wapping
* Jean-Paul Laurens – L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux (The Excommunication of Robert the Pious; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Alexander Litovchenko – Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to the British ambassador
* Edwin Long – The Babylonian Marriage Market
* Édouard Manet – illustrations for a French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, by Stéphane Mallarmé
* Adolph Menzel – The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclops)
* Claude Monet
** Argenteuil (Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
** Camille Monet at her Tapestry
** Train in the Snow
** La Promenade, la femme a l'ombrelle (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
** Woman with a Parasol (Camille and Jean Monet)
* William Morris – Acanthus (wallpaper design)
* Erastus Dow Palmer – Robert R. Livingston (bronzes)
* Robert Reid – Civil War Memorial (Savannah, Georgia)
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
** The Lovers
** Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
** Nude in the Sun
** Portrait of Claude Monet
** Self-portrait
* Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – The Death of Seneca
* Elizabeth Thompson – The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras
* James Tissot
** Hush!
** Lilacs
* Hubert von Herkomer – The Last Muster
* James McNeill Whistler
** Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (approximate date)
** Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel
* Archibald Willard – The Spirit of '76 (Yankee Doodle)
* J. Warrington Wood – Lillian Schnitzer Fountain, Houston, Texas

## Births

* March 13 – Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (died 1959)
* March 27 – Albert Marquet, French painter (died 1947)
* July 31 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (died 1963)
* October 1 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (died 1965)
* November 9 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish art dealer and gallery founder (died 1915)
* November 13 – Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (died 1974)
* November 24 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (died 1928)
* December 25 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (died 1963)
* date unknown – Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter (died 1957)

## Deaths

* January 18 – O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England (born 1813)
* January 20 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (born 1814)
* February – Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter (born 1800)
* February 22 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (born 1796)
* February 28 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver (born 1819)
* March 20 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (born 1797)
* April 13 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (born 1817)
* April 21 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (born 1782)
* April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer (born 1766)
* May 1 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (born 1818)
* June 4 – Frederick Walker, English social realist painter (born 1840)
* June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796)
* July 9 – Christian Ruben, German painter (born 1805)
* September 11 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent (born 1799)
* September 12 – Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter (born 1786)
* September 28 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (born 1793)
* October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (born 1827)
* November 25 – Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator (born 1788)
* December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher (born 1791)