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)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Flora and Zephyr
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)
Paul Cézanne - L'Après-midi à Naples
Józef Chełmoński – Indian Summer
Ernest Crofts – The Battle Of Ligny
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)
William Morris – Acanthus (wallpaper design)
Erastus Dow Palmer – Robert R. Livingston (bronzes)
Robert Reid – Civil War Memorial (Savannah, Georgia)
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)
December 25 – Manuel Benedito, Spanish painter (died 1963)
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

^ "£100,000 revamp for Ruskin Gallery - Lifestyle". Sheffield Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-10-28.

[1] "£100,000 revamp for Ruskin Gallery - Lifestyle". Sheffield Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-10-28.

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