1865 in art

Events from the year 1865 in art.

Events

 * 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

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – An Egyptian at his Doorway
 * 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
 * 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
 * Sir Edwin Henry Landseer – Lady Godiva's Prayer (approximate date)
 * 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
 * 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 Alice par John Tenniel 30.png 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 – Emperor Franz Joseph
 * 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)
 * 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)