1864 in art
Events from the year 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.
- May 1 – The Salon of 1864 opens in Paris
- May 2 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1864 opens in London
- December 28 – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse established.
- 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 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 15th century altarpiece The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius from Lord Taunton.
Awards
Works
- Ramon Martí Alsina – The Great Day of Girona
- Frédéric Bazille – The Pink Dress
- François Bocion – '
- John Brett – Massa, Bay of Naples
- Ford Madox Brown
- * Elijah and the Widow's Son
- * King René's Honeymoon
- Francis Bicknell Carpenter – First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
- Edward William Cooke – Scheveningen Pincks off the Coast of Yarmouth
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Souvenir de Mortefontaine
- Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
- Honoré Daumier – The Third-Class Carriage
- Alfred Elmore – On the Brink
- Thomas Farrell – Memorial statue to John McNeil Boyd
- Anselm Feuerbach – Paolo and Francesca
- Konstantin Flavitsky – Princess Tarakanova
- Mariano Fortuny - Battle of Tetuán
- William Holman Hunt – London Bridge on the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- Sir Edwin Landseer – Man Proposes, God Disposes
- Henri Fantin-Latour
- * Homage to Delacroix
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- Jean-Paul Laurens – The Death of Tiberius
- Frederic Leighton – The Painter's Honeymoon
- John Frederick Lewis – Captive Dove, Cairo
- Daniel Maclise – The Death of Nelson
- Édouard Manet
- * Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges
- * The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama
- * Branch of White Peonies and Pruning Shears
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- Jan Matejko
- * Kazanie Skargi
- * Polonia
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – 1814: The Campaign in France
- John Everett Millais – Charlie Is My Darling
- Jean-François Millet – '
- Gustave Moreau – Oedipus and the Sphinx
- Erskine Nicol – '
- Henry Nelson O'Neil – The Landing of Princess Alexandra at Gravesend
- Val Prinsep – My Lady Betty
- William Blake Richmond – '
- Frederick Sandys – Morgan le Fay
- Emil Jakob Schindler – A Forest Blacksmith
- Simeon Solomon – Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
- James Tissot
- * Japanese Girl Bathing
- * Portrait of Mademoiselle L.L.
- G. F. Watts – Choosing
- James McNeill Whistler
- * Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen
- * Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
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- Franz Xaver Winterhalter
- * Carlota of Belgium
- * Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov
- * ''Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark''
Births
- January 3 – Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter
- February 1 – Albert Julius Olsson, English marine painter
- March 10 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter
- March 19 – Charles Marion Russell, American "cowboy artist"
- March 29 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer
- April 9 – Archibald Knox, Manx designer
- May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter
- May 22 – Willy Stöwer, German marine artist
- July 8 – F. Holland Day, American photographer
- October 7 – Harrington Mann, Scottish-born portrait painter and decorative artist
- November 24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- December 3 – Anna Boberg, Swedish painter
- December 8 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist
- December 13 – John Quinton Pringle, Scottish painter
- December 30 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter date unknown
- * Alexander Fisher, English silversmith and enamel painter
- * J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American portrait painter, photographer and model
- January 3 – William Behnes, English sculptor
- January 6 – James Frothingham, American painter
- January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer
- January 29 – William Cowen, English landscape painter
- February 10 – William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter
- February 14 – William Dyce, British painter
- March 2 – Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome
- March 19 – Alexandre Calame, Swiss painter
- March 21 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter
- June 1 – John Watson Gordon, Scottish painter
- June 2 – Caroline Bardua, German painter
- June 8 – Stephen Poyntz Denning, English portraitist, artist and curator
- July 27 – Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter
- August 7 – Johann Pucher, Slovene painter and photographer
- August 10 – Thomas Baker "of Leamington", English landscape painter
- November 15 – Abel Dimier, French sculptor
- November 20 – Albert Newsam, American graphic artist
- December 24 – Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin date unknown
- * Carlo Restallino, Italian-born painter and engraver
- * William Guy Wall, Irish-born painter working in the United States