1865 in art

Events from the year 1865 in art.

Events

FebruaryâApril â Alexander Gardner photographs Abraham Lincoln (before and after his death) and his assassins.^[1]
July 21 â 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.
Ãdouard Manet's painting Olympia is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy.^[2]
Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet's painting The Angelus (L'AngÃ©lus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France.^[3]
The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum.

January 19 â Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter (died 1911)
January 23 â Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model (died 1946)
April 26 â Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (died 1931)
May 5 â Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (died 1892)
June 25 â Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School (died 1929)
June 26 â Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian (died 1959)
June 28 â David Young Cameron, Scottish painter (died 1945)
August 2 â John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (died 1955)
August 20 â Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher (died 1951)
September 23 â Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter (died 1938)
November 11 â Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter (died 1935)
date unknown â AdelaÃ¯de Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (died 1929)

January 10 â William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector (born 1795)
January 12 â Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (born 1786)
January 19 â Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer (born 1822)
January 21 â Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (born 1793)
February 21 â Constant Troyon, French painter (born 1810)
March 8 â Gerard Bilders, Dutch painter (born 1838)
April 21 â Josef MatÄj NavrÃ¡til, Czech painter of murals and frescoes (born 1798)
April 28 â Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (born 1794)
June 18 â Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (born 1806)
July 11 â Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter (born 1788)
August 14 â Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter (born 1804)
August 23 â Ferdinand Georg WaldmÃ¼ller, Austrian painter and writer (born 1793)
September 17 â John Neagle, American portrait painter (born 1796)
September 23 â John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England (born 1795)
September 29 â FranÃ§ois Joseph Heim, French painter (born 1787)
November 1 â Charles-FranÃ§ois LebÅuf, French sculptor (born 1792)
December 24 â 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)