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