1864 in art

Awards

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

Works

*Richard Dadd - "The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke"
*Henri Fantin-Latour - "Homage to Delacroix"
*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)
**"The Dead Toreador" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
**"Women at the Races" (Cincinnati Art Museum)
*Jean-François Millet - "Shepherdess with Her Flock" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

*May 15 - Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (d. 1916)
*November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
*December 8 - Camille Claudel, sculptor and graphic artist (d. 1943)
* J. Laurie Wallace, Irish/American artist (d. 1953)
* Paul Ranson, French painter and writer (d. 1909)
* Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (d. 1897)

Deaths

*February 14 - William Dyce, painter (b. 1806)
*March 19 - Alexandre Calame, painter (b. 1810)
*March 21 - Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, painter (b. 1809)
*June 1 - John Watson Gordon, painter (b. 1788)
*August 7 - Janez Puhar, painter and photographer (b. 1814)
*November 25 - David Roberts, Scottish painter (b. 1796)
*James Frothingham, American painter (b. 1786)
*Leo von Klenze - German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (b. 1784)
*Joseph Patrick Haverty - Irish painter (b. 1794)
* William Henry Hunt - English water-color painter (b. 1790)
* Thomas Baker "of Leamington", landscape painter (b. 1809)
* William Guy Wall - American painter of Irish birth (b. 1792)
* William Behnes - English sculptor (b. 1795)