1864 in art

Events

• January 30 – National Gallery of Ireland opens to the public in Dublin in a building designed by Francis Fowke based on early plans by Charles Lanyon.
• February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later.^[1]
• Stanisław Chlebowski takes up a post as master painter to Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul.^[2]

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – Louis-Ernest Barrias

Works

Whistler – The Little White Girl

• Ramon Martí Alsina – The Great Day of Girona
• Frédéric Bazille – The Pink Dress (approximate date)
• François Bocion – Steamer on Lake Geneva – Evening Effect
• Ford Madox Brown – King René's Honeymoon
• Francis Bicknell Carpenter – First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Souvenir de Mortefontaine
• Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
• Honoré Daumier – The Third-Class Carriage (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Anselm Feuerbach – Paolo and Francesca
• Sir Edwin Landseer – Man Proposes, God Disposes
• Henri Fantin-Latour – Homage to Delacroix
• Frederic Leighton – The Painter's Honeymoon
• John Frederick Lewis – Captive Dove, Cairo
• Daniel Maclise – The Death of Nelson (wall painting for Palace of Westminster and oil study)
• Édouard Manet
  • Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges ("The Angels at Christ's Tomb") (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Branch of White Peonies and Pruning Shears (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Peonies (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • The Dead Toreador (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Women at the Races (Cincinnati Art Museum)
• Jan Matejko
  • Kazanie Skargi
  • Polonia
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – 1814: The Campaign in France (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Jean-François Millet – Shepherdess with Her Flock (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Gustave Moreau – Oedipus and the Sphinx
• Erskine Nicol – Irish Emigrants Waiting for a Train
• Frederick Sandys – Morgan le Fay
• Simeon Solomon – Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
• G. F. Watts – Choosing
• James McNeill Whistler
  • Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen
  • Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
  • Wapping
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Carlota of Belgium
  • Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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  29 January 1864: "Annie, my first success", Julia Margaret Cameron's first satisfactory print

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  Sadness: Ellen Terry photographed in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron

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  Choosing: Ellen Terry painted by her husband of 1864 G. F. Watts

Births

• March 10 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (died 1897)
• March 29 – Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (died 1909)
• May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (died 1916)
• May 22 – Willy Stöwer, German marine artist (died 1931)
• July 8 – F. Holland Day, American photographer (died 1933)
• October 7 – Harrington Mann, Scottish-born portrait painter and decorative artist (died 1937)
• November 24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (died 1901)
• December 8 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (died 1943)
• December 30 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (died 1944)
• date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (died 1953)

Deaths

• January 3 – William Behnes, English sculptor (born 1795)
• January 6 - James Frothingham, American painter (born 1786)
• January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)
• January 29 – William Cowen, English landscape painter (born 1791)
• February 10 – William Henry Hunt, English watercolor painter (born 1790)
• February 14 – William Dyce, painter (born 1806)
• March 2 – Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome (born 1785)
• March 19 – Alexandre Calame, painter (born 1810)
• March 21 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (born 1809)
• June 1 – John Watson Gordon, painter (born 1788)
• June 2 – Caroline Bardua, German painter (born 1781)
• June 8 – Stephen Poyntz Denning, English portraitist, artist and curator (born 1795-1798)
• July 27 – Joseph Patrick Haverty – Irish painter (born 1794)
• August 7 – Janez Puhar, painter and photographer (born 1814)
• August 10 – Thomas Baker "of Leamington", landscape painter (born 1809)
• November 15 - Abel Dimier, French sculptor (born 1794)
• November 25 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (born 1796)
• December 24 – Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (born 1798)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Restallino, Italian-born painter and engraver (born 1776)
  • William Guy Wall, Irish painter, worked in the United States (born 1792)

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