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Events from the year 1865 in art.

Events

  • February–April – Alexander Gardner photographs Abraham Lincoln (before and after his death) and his assassins.
  • July 21 – Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 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 (L'Angélus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France.
  • The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum.

Works

thumb|250px|[[Ford Madox Brown – Work]]

  • 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 (fresco in United States Capitol rotunda)
  • Augustus Burke – Connemara Girl
  • Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris – The Crucifixion (stained-glass window for chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  • 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 (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
  • 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 (née Braddon)
  • The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
  • Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman
  • 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
  • John Callcott Horsley – A Pleasant Corner
  • Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann – A Wounded Danish Soldier
  • Edwin Landseer
  • The Connoisseurs
  • Lady Godiva's Prayer
  • Andrew and George Anderson Lawson – Wellington's Column, Liverpool
  • Benjamin Williams Leader – Autumn's Last Gleam
  • Edward Lear – Jerusalem (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  • Thomas Le Clear – Interior with Portraits

thumb|right|Édouard Manet – The Mocking of Christ

  • Édouard Manet
  • Angélina (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Bull-Fighting Scene (Private collection)
  • The Mocking of Christ (Art Institute of Chicago)
  • The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • George Hemming Mason – The Cast Shoe
  • 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 thumb|[[John Tenniel|Tenniel illustration to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]
  • S. S. Teulon – Buxton Memorial Fountain (Westminster)
  • 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 (died 1911)
  • January 23 – Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model (died 1946)
  • April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (died 1931)
  • May 5 – Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (died 1892)
  • June 25 – Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School (died 1929)
  • June 26 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian (died 1959)
  • June 28 – David Young Cameron, Scottish painter (died 1945)
  • August 2 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (died 1955)
  • August 20 – Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher (died 1951)
  • September 23 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter (died 1938)
  • November 11 – Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter (died 1935)
  • December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1925)
  • date unknown – Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (died 1929)

Deaths

  • January 10 – William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector (born 1795)
  • January 12 – Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (born 1786)
  • January 19 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer (born 1822)
  • January 21 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (born 1793)
  • January 23 – Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (born 1797)
  • February 21 – Constant Troyon, French painter (born 1810)
  • March 8 – Gerard Bilders, Dutch painter (born 1838)
  • April 21 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of murals and frescoes (born 1798)
  • April 28 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (born 1794)
  • June 18 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (born 1806)
  • July 11 – Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter (born 1788)
  • August 14 – Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter (born 1804)
  • August 23 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (born 1793)
  • September 17 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (born 1796)
  • September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England (born 1795)
  • September 29 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (born 1787)
  • November 1 – Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (born 1792)
  • December 24 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (born 1793)
  • date unknown
  • Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (born 1797)
  • Michael Hanhart, English lithographer and chromolithographer (born 1788)

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