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 (René Caillebotte)
 * Julia Margaret Cameron –  'So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur (photograph)
 * Paul Cézanne - L'Après-midi à Naples
 * Józef Chełmoński – Indian Summer
 * Edgar Degas – Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde)
 * Thomas Eakins – The Gross Clinic
 * Atkinson Grimshaw – Liverpool from Wapping
 * Jean-Paul Laurens – L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux (The Excommunication of Robert the Pious; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * 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
 * Adolph Menzel – The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclops)
 * Claude Monet
 * Argenteuil (Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
 * Camille Monet at her Tapestry
 * Train in the Snow
 * La Promenade, la femme a l'ombrelle (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Woman with a Parasol (Camille and Jean Monet)
 * William Morris – Acanthus (wallpaper design)
 * Erastus Dow Palmer – Robert R. Livingston (bronzes)
 * Robert Reid – Civil War Memorial (Savannah, Georgia)
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 * The Lovers
 * Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
 * 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 (approximate date)
 * Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel
 * Archibald Willard – The Spirit of '76 (Yankee Doodle)
 * J. Warrington Wood – Lillian Schnitzer Fountain, Houston, Texas

Births

 * March 13 – Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (died 1959)
 * March 27 – Albert Marquet, French painter (died 1947)
 * July 31 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (died 1963)
 * October 1 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (died 1965)
 * November 9 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish art dealer and gallery founder (died 1915)
 * November 13 – Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (died 1974)
 * November 24 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (died 1928)
 * December 25 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (died 1963)
 * date unknown – Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter (died 1957)

Deaths

 * January 18 – O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England (born 1813)
 * January 20 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (born 1814)
 * February – Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter (born 1800)
 * February 22 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (born 1796)
 * February 28 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver (born 1819)
 * March 20 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (born 1797)
 * April 13 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (born 1817)
 * April 21 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (born 1782)
 * April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer (born 1766)
 * May 1 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (born 1818)
 * June 4 – Frederick Walker, English social realist painter (born 1840)
 * June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796)
 * July 9 – Christian Ruben, German painter (born 1805)
 * September 11 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent (born 1799)
 * September 12 – Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter (born 1786)
 * September 28 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (born 1793)
 * October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (born 1827)
 * November 25 – Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator (born 1788)
 * December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher (born 1791)