1864 in art

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Events from the year1864 in art.

Events

January 30–National Gallery of Irelandopens to the public inDublinin a building designed byFrancis Fowkebased on early plans byCharles Lanyon.
February 20– PainterGeorge Frederic Wattsmarries his 16-year-old model, the actressEllen Terry,30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later.^[1]
December 28–Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouseestablished.
December 30–Julia Margaret CameronsendsJohn Herschelan album of her first year's photography including her iconic portrait of him.
TheFrances Lehman Loeb Art Centeris established as theVassar CollegeArt Gallery on the women's college campus inPoughkeepsie, New York(in theHudson Valley) including the Magoon Collection ofHudson River Schoolpaintings donated byMatthew Vassar.
Stanisław Chlebowskitakes up a post as master painter to SultanAbdülazizinIstanbul.^[2]
TheNational Galleryin London acquires the 15th century altarpieceThe Annunciation, with Saint EmidiusfromLord Taunton.^[3]

Awards

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

Works

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
- Elijah and the Widow's Son(full-size oil version)
- 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)
Thomas Farrell– Memorial statue to John McNeil Boyd (St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin)
Anselm Feuerbach–Paolo and Francesca
Konstantin Flavitsky–Princess Tarakanova
William Holman Hunt–London Bridge on the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Sir Edwin Landseer–Man Proposes, God Disposes
Henri Fantin-Latour
- Homage to Delacroix
- White Cup and Saucer
Frederic Leighton–The Painter's Honeymoon
John Frederick Lewis–Captive Dove, Cairo
Daniel Maclise–The Death of Nelson(wall painting forPalace of Westminsterand 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
Val Prinsep–My Lady Betty
William Blake Richmond–The Sisters
Frederick Sandys–Morgan le Fay
Emil Jakob Schindler–A Forest Blacksmith
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)

29 January 1864: "Annie, my first success",Julia Margaret Cameron's first satisfactory print
Sadness:Ellen Terryphotographed in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron
Choosing:Ellen Terry painted by her husband of 1864G. F. Watts

Births

January 3–Ernst Klimt,Austrianmural painter (died1892)
February 1–Albert Julius Olsson,Englishmarine painter (died1942)
March 10–Ādams Alksnis,Latvian painter(died1897)
March 19–Charles Marion Russell,American"cowboy artist" (died1926)
March 29–Paul Ranson,Frenchpainter and writer (died1909)
April 9–Archibald Knox,Manxdesigner (died1933)
May 15–Vilhelm Hammershøi,Danish painter (died1916)
May 22–Willy Stöwer,Germanmarine artist (died1931)
July 8–F. Holland Day,American photographer (died1933)
October 7–Harrington Mann,Scottish-born portrait painter and decorative artist (died1937)
November 24–Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,French painter (died1901)
December 3–Anna Boberg,Swedish painter (died1935)
December 8–Camille Claudel,Frenchsculptorand graphic artist (died1943)^[4]
December 13–John Quinton Pringle,Scottish painter (died1925)
December 30–Marko Murat,Serbianpainter (died1944)
date unknown
- Alexander Fisher,English silversmith and enamel painter (died1936)
- J. Laurie Wallace,Irish American portrait painter, photographer and model (died1953)

Deaths

January 3–William Behnes,English sculptor (born1795)
January 6–James Frothingham,American painter (born1786)
January 27–Leo von Klenze,Germanneoclassicist architect,painter andwriter(born1784)
January 29–William Cowen,English landscape painter (born1791)
February 10–William Henry Hunt,Englishwatercolorpainter (born1790)
February 14–William Dyce,British painter (born1806)
March 2–Jean Alaux,French history painter and Director of theFrench Academy in Rome(born1786)
March 19–Alexandre Calame,Swiss painter (born1810)
March 21–Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin,French painter (born1809)
June 1–John Watson Gordon,Scottishpainter (born1788)
June 2–Caroline Bardua,German painter (born1781)
June 8–Stephen Poyntz Denning,English portraitist, artist and curator (born1795-1798)
July 27–Joseph Patrick Haverty,Irishpainter (born1794)
August 7–Johann Pucher(Janez Puhar), Slovene painter and photographer (born1814)
August 10–Thomas Baker"of Leamington", Englishlandscapepainter (born1809)
November 15–Abel Dimier,French sculptor (born1794)
November 20–Albert Newsam,American graphic artist (born1809)
November 25–David Roberts,Scottish painter (born1796)
December 24–Demeter Laccataris,Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (born1798)
date unknown
- Carlo Restallino,Italian-born painter and engraver (born1776)
- William Guy Wall,Irish-born painter working in the United States (born1792)

References

^Shearer, Moira(1998).Ellen Terry.Pocket biographies. Stroud: Sutton.ISBN 0750915269.
^Mendelsohn, Ezra (2002).Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art.Brandeis University Press. p. 59.ISBN 978-1-58465-179-6.
^"The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius".The National Gallery.Retrieved26 June2015.
^Schmoll, Josef A. (1999).Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel.Munich: Prestel. p. 13.ISBN 978-3-79132-005-2.

[1] Shearer, Moira(1998).Ellen Terry.Pocket biographies. Stroud: Sutton.ISBN 0750915269.

[2] Mendelsohn, Ezra (2002).Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art.Brandeis University Press. p. 59.ISBN 978-1-58465-179-6.

[3] "The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius".The National Gallery.Retrieved26 June2015.

[4] Schmoll, Josef A. (1999).Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel.Munich: Prestel. p. 13.ISBN 978-3-79132-005-2.

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