1865 in art

Births

• January 19 – Valentin Serov, Russian portrait painter (died 1911)
• January 23 – Connie Gilchrist, English child actress and model (died 1946)
• April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (died 1931)
• May 5 – Albert Aurier, French poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism (died 1892)
• June 25 – Robert Henri, American painter, leader of the Ash Can School (died 1929)
• June 26 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born American art historian (died 1959)
• June 28 – David Young Cameron, Scottish painter (died 1945)
• August 2 – John Radecki, Polish-born Australian stained glass artist (died 1955)
• August 20 – Frank DuMond, American painter, illustrator and teacher (died 1951)
• September 23 – Suzanne Valadon, French artists' model and painter (died 1938)
• November 11 – Donatus Buongiorno, Italian-born American painter (died 1935)
• December 28 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1925)
• date unknown – Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (died 1929)

Deaths

• January 10 – William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester, English diplomat and art collector (born 1795)
• January 12 – Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (born 1786)
• January 19 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, British portrait photographer (born 1822)
• January 21 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (born 1793)
• January 23 – Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (born 1797)
• February 21 – Constant Troyon, French painter (born 1810)
• March 8 – Gerard Bilders, Dutch painter (born 1838)
• April 21 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of murals and frescoes (born 1798)
• April 28 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (born 1794)
• June 18 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (born 1806)
• July 11 – Ammi Phillips, American folk portrait painter (born 1788)
• August 14 – Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist marine painter (born 1804)
• August 23 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (born 1793)
• September 17 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (born 1796)
• September 23 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, signmaker and coachman in Victorian England (born 1795)
• September 29 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (born 1787)
• November 1 – Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (born 1792)
• December 24 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (born 1793)
• date unknown
• Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (born 1797)
• Michael Hanhart, English lithographer and chromolithographer (born 1788)

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