1865 in art

Events

*Ford Madox Brown completes his painting, "Work", after thirteen years.

Works

*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - "An Egyptian at his Doorway"
*Gustave Courbet - "Portrait of Countess Karoly"
*Edgar Degas - "Medieval War Scene"
*Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Prayer"
*Henri Harpignies - "Les Corbeaux"
*Édouard Manet
**"Angélina" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
**"Bull-Fighting Scene" (Private collection)
**"The Mocking of Christ" (Art Institute of Chicago)
**"The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
*Gustave Moreau - "Orpheus"
*Alfred Sisley - "Avenue of Chestnut Trees near La Celle-Saint-Cloud"

Births

*January 19 - Valentin Serov, painter (d. 1911)
*April 26 - Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painter (d. 1931)
*June 25 - Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (d. 1929)
*September 23 - Suzanne Valadon, painter (d. 1938)
*December 28 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
* Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (d. 1929)
* Albert Aurier, poet, art critic and painter devoted to Symbolism (d. 1892)

Deaths

*January 26 - Marcus Larson Swedish painter (b. "unknown")
*June 18 - Antoine Wiertz, painter (b. 1806)
*August 14 - Fitz Hugh Lane, Luminist painter (b. 1804)
*September 29 - François Joseph Heim, painter (b. 1787)
* Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (b. 1797)
* John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker, and coachman in Victorian England (b. 1795)
* Charles Lock Eastlake, painter and art collector (b. 1793)
* Kunisada - Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (b. 1786)
* John Neagle - American painter of portraits (b. 1796)
* Josef Navrátil - Bohemian painter of paintings, murals, and frescos (b. 1798)
* Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Austrian painter and writer (b. 1793)
* Robert William Sievier - English engraver, sculptor, and inventor (b. 1794)