1865 in art
Events from the year 1865 in art.
Events
- February–April – Alexander Gardner photographs Abraham Lincoln and his assassins.
- July 21 – Charles Dodgson 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 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
- John Ballantyne – Sir Edwin Landseer in His Studio
- Albert Bierstadt
- * Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
- * Staubbach Falls, near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
- Ford Madox Brown – Work
- Constantino Brumidi – The Apotheosis of Washington
- Augustus Burke – Connemara Girl
- Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris – The Crucifixion
- 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
- 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
- * 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
- Edwin Landseer – Lady Godiva's Prayer
- Andrew and George Anderson Lawson – Wellington's Column, Liverpool
- Benjamin Williams Leader – Autumn's Last Gleam
- Edward Lear – Jerusalem
- Thomas Le Clear – Interior with Portraits
- Édouard Manet
- * Angélina
- * Bull-Fighting Scene
- * The Mocking of Christ
- * The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)
- George Hemming Mason –
- 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
- S. S. Teulon – Buxton Memorial Fountain
- James McNeill Whistler – Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Franz Joseph I
- Thomas Woolner – Godley Statue
Births
- January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter
- January 23 – Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model
- April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter
- May 5 – Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism
- June 25 – Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School
- June 26 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian
- June 28 – David Young Cameron, Scottish painter
- August 2 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist
- August 20 – Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher
- September 23 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter
- November 11 – Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter
- December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist date unknown – Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter
Deaths
- January 10 – William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector
- January 12 – Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints
- January 19 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer
- January 21 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland
- January 23 – Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits
- February 21 – Constant Troyon, French painter
- March 8 – Gerard Bilders, Dutch painter
- April 21 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of murals and frescoes
- April 28 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor
- June 18 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter
- July 11 – Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter
- August 14 – Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter
- August 23 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer
- September 17 – John Neagle, American portrait painter
- September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England
- September 29 – François Joseph Heim, French painter
- November 1 – Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor
- December 24 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector date unknown
- * Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter
- * Michael Hanhart, English lithographer and chromolithographer