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
- Julia Margaret Cameron –
'So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur - Paul Cézanne - L'Après-midi à Naples
- Józef Chełmoński – Indian Summer
- Ernest Crofts – The Battle Of Ligny
- Edgar Degas – Place de la Concorde
- Giuseppe De Nittis
- * La [Place des Pyramides, Paris]
- * Westminster
- Thomas Eakins – The Gross Clinic
- Atkinson Grimshaw – Liverpool from Wapping
- Jean-Paul Laurens – L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux
- 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
- John Jabez Edwin Mayall – Karl Marx
- Adolph Menzel – The Iron Rolling Mill
- Claude Monet
- * Argenteuil
- * Camille Monet at her Tapestry
- * Train in the Snow
- * La Promenade, la femme a l'ombrelle
- William Morris – Acanthus
- Erastus Dow Palmer – Robert R. Livingston
- Robert Reid – Civil War Memorial
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- * The Lovers
- * Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise
- * 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]
- * Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel
- Archibald Willard – The Spirit of '76
- J. Warrington Wood – Lillian Schnitzer Fountain, Houston, Texas
Births
- March 13 – Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter
- March 27 – Albert Marquet, French painter
- July 31 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker
- October 1 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter
- November 9 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish art dealer and gallery founder
- November 13 – Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist
- November 24 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter
- December 25 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter date unknown – Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter
Deaths
- January 18 – O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England
- January 20 – Jean-François Millet, French painter
- February – Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter
- February 22 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter
- February 28 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver
- March 20 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer
- April 13 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter
- April 21 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits
- April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer
- May 1 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor
- June 4 – Frederick Walker, English social realist painter
- June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor
- July 9 – Christian Ruben, German painter
- September 11 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent
- September 12 – Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter
- September 28 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter
- October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor
- November 25 – Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator
- December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher