1865 in art

[edit] Events

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

• June 18 - Antoine Wiertz, painter
• August 14 - Fitz Hugh Lane, Luminist painter
• September 29 - François Joseph Heim, painter
• date unknown - Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter
• date unknown - John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker, and coachman in Victorian England (b. 1795)