1855 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits Venus Anadyomene, which has taken him forty years to complete.

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] Works

• The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown

[edit] Births

• May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter
• July 30 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator
• September 8 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer

[edit] Deaths

• March 3 - Copley Fielding, painter
• April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter
• November 3 - François Rude, sculptor
• date unknown - Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver