1855 in art
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[edit] Events
- Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist's Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration.
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits Venus Anadyomene, which has taken him forty years to complete.
[edit] Awards
- Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu
[edit] Works
- Ford Madox Brown - The Last of England
- Gustave Courbet - The Artist's Studio (L‘Atelier du Peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
[edit] Births
- May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter
- July 30 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator
- September 8 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 - Copley Fielding, painter
- April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter
- November 3 - François Rude, sculptor
- date unknown - Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver
