1855 in art

1855 in art

Events

* Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental "The Artist's Studio" in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration.
*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits "Venus Anadyomene", which has taken him forty years to complete.

Awards

*Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu

Works

*Ford Madox Brown - "The Last of England"
*Gustave Courbet - "" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

*May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (d. 1942)
*July 30 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (d. 1933)
*September 8 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (d. 1921)

Deaths

*March 3 - Copley Fielding, painter (b. 1787)
*April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter (b. 1767)
*November 3 - François Rude, sculptor (b. 1784)
* Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver (b. 1783)
* Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (b. 1783)
* Piotr Michałowski - Polish portrait painter (b. 1800)
* Amasa Hewins - American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (b. 1795)
* Johann Georg Primavesi - German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (b. 1774)


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