1875 in art

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Events from the year 1875 in art.

Events

• Claude Monet finishes painting his Snow at Argenteuil series.
• Foundation of the Art Students League of New York.
• Foundation of the Ruskin Gallery as the Museum of St George in a cottage in Walkley on the outskirts of Sheffield in the north of England by John Ruskin.[1]

Works

Monet – Snow at Argenteuil (1875) (National Gallery, London)

• Gustave Caillebotte
  • The Floor-scrapers
  • The Gardeners
  • The Yerres, effect of rain
  • Young Man at his Window (René Caillebotte)
• Julia Margaret Cameron – 'So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur (photograph)
• Edgar Degas – Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde)
• Thomas Eakins – The Gross Clinic
• Atkinson Grimshaw – Liverpool from Wapping
• Jean-Paul Laurens – L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux (The Excommunication of Robert the Pious; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Alexander Litovchenko – Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to the British ambassador
• Edwin Long – The Babylonian Marriage Market
• Édouard Manet – illustrations for a French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, by Stéphane Mallarmé
• Adolph Menzel – The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclops)
• Claude Monet
  • Argenteuil (Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
  • Camille Monet at her Tapestry
  • Train in the Snow
  • La Promenade, la femme a l'ombrelle (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Woman with a Parasol (Camille and Jean Monet)
• Erastus Dow Palmer – Robert R. Livingston (bronzes)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • The Lovers
  • Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
  • Nude in the Sun
  • Portrait of Claude Monet
  • Self-portrait
• Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – The Death of Seneca
• Elizabeth Thompson – The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras
• James Tissot
  • Hush!
  • Lilacs
• Hubert von Herkomer – The Last Muster
• James McNeill Whistler
  • Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (approximate date)
  • Nocturne: Black and Gold – The Fire Wheel
• Archibald Willard – The Spirit of '76 (Yankee Doodle)
• J. Warrington Wood – Lillian Schnitzer Fountain, Houston, Texas

Births

• March 13 – Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (died 1959)
• March 27 – Albert Marquet, French painter (died 1947)
• July 31 – Jacques Villon, French Cubist painter and printmaker (died 1963)
• October 1 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (died 1965)
• November 9 – Sir Hugh Lane, Irish art dealer and gallery founder (died 1915)
• November 13 – Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (died 1974)
• November 24 – Louis Mathieu Verdilhan, French painter (died 1928)
• date unknown – Alexandros Christofis, Greek painter (died 1957)

Deaths

Plaque on the home of Camille Corot where he died aged 78 on 22 February 1875 at 56, rue du Faubourg-Poissionnière, 10th arrondissement of Paris

• January 18 – O. G. Rejlander, photographer in England (born 1813)
• January 20 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (born 1814)
• February – Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter (born 1800)
• February 22 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (born 1796)
• February 28 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcarver (born 1819)
• March 20 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (born 1797)
• April 13 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (born 1817)
• April 21 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (born 1782)
• April 30 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French artist and explorer (born 1766)
• May 1 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (born 1818)
• June 4 – Frederick Walker, English social realist painter (born 1840)
• June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796)
• July 9 – Christian Ruben, German painter (born 1805)
• September 11 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent (born 1799)
• September 12 – Paul Fischer, German portrait, miniature and landscape painter (born 1786)
• September 28 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (born 1793)
• October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (born 1827)
• November 25 – Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter and illustrator (born 1788)
• December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, potter, painter and calligrapher (born 1791)

References

1. "£100,000 revamp for Ruskin Gallery - Lifestyle". Sheffield Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-10-28.