1875 in art
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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.[1]
Works
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau â 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 â 'So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur (photograph)
- Paul Cézanne - L'Après-midi à Naples
- Józef CheÅmoÅski â Indian Summer
- Ernest Crofts â The Battle Of Ligny
- Edgar Degas â Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde)
- Giuseppe De Nittis
- Thomas Eakins â The Gross Clinic
- Atkinson Grimshaw â Liverpool from Wapping
- Jean-Paul Laurens â L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux (The Excommunication of Robert the Pious; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Alexander Litovchenko â Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to the British ambassador
- Edwin Long â The Babylonian Marriage Market
- Ãdouard Manet â illustrations for a French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, by Stéphane Mallarmé
- John Jabez Edwin Mayall â Karl Marx (photograph; approximate date)
- Adolph Menzel â The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclops)
- Claude Monet
- William Morris â Acanthus (wallpaper design)
- Erastus Dow Palmer â Robert R. Livingston (bronzes)
- Robert Reid â Civil War Memorial (Savannah, Georgia)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Joseph-Noël Sylvestre â The Death of Seneca
- Elizabeth Thompson â The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras
- James Tissot
- Hubert von Herkomer â The Last Muster
- James McNeill Whistler
- Nocturne in Black and Gold â The Falling Rocket (approximate date)
- Nocturne: Black and Gold â The Fire Wheel
- Archibald Willard â The Spirit of '76 (Yankee Doodle)
- J. Warrington Wood â Lillian Schnitzer Fountain, Houston, Texas
Births
- March 13 â Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (died 1959)
- March 27 â Albert Marquet, French painter (died 1947)
- July 31 â Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (died 1963)
- October 1 â Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (died 1965)
- November 9 â Sir Hugh Lane, Irish art dealer and gallery founder (died 1915)
- November 13 â Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (died 1974)
- November 24 â Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (died 1928)
- December 25 â Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (died 1963)
- date unknown â Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter (died 1957)
Deaths
- January 18 â O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England (born 1813)
- January 20 â Jean-François Millet, French painter (born 1814)
- February â Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter (born 1800)
- February 22 â Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (born 1796)
- February 28 â Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver (born 1819)
- March 20 â January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (born 1797)
- April 13 â P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (born 1817)
- April 21 â Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (born 1782)
- April 30 â Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer (born 1766)
- May 1 â Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (born 1818)
- June 4 â Frederick Walker, English social realist painter (born 1840)
- June 25 â Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796)
- July 9 â Christian Ruben, German painter (born 1805)
- September 11 â Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent (born 1799)
- September 12 â Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter (born 1786)
- September 28 â Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (born 1793)
- October 12 â Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (born 1827)
- November 25 â Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator (born 1788)
- December 10 â Åtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher (born 1791)