32 1864 paintings

The 9:45 Accommodation is a 19th-century painting by American artist Edward Lamson Henry. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a train being boarded. Several notable versions of the painting have been produced, the first being an 1864 painting on wood panel and the second being an 1867 oil on canvas painting. The original 1864 work is in the collection of the Morse Museum of American Art, while the 1867 work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama is an 1864 oil painting by Édouard Manet. The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement of the American Civil War between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the Confederate raider CSS Alabama. Many spectators were able to see the battle from the coast of France and saw that USS Kearsarge sank CSS Alabama. Not having witnessed the battle himself, Manet relied on press descriptions of the fight to document his work. Within one month of this battle, Manet had already completed this painting and got it on display in the print shop of Alfred Cadart in Paris.

Boys Drawing is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by the Swedish artist Sofie Ribbing in the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

The Brierwood Pipe is an oil painting of 1864 by Winslow Homer. It depicts two men from the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry.

The Bullfight is an 1864-1865 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Frick Collection in New York. Its dimensions are 48x60.4cm. Like The Dead Man, it was originally part of a larger composition entitled Episode in a Bullfight. The scene was inspired by a trip that Manet took to Spain in the fall of 1865 for ten days. He described the bullfight he witnessed in a letter to Charles Baudelaire as "one of the finest, most curious and most terrifying sights to be seen."

Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall is an 1864 oil painting on canvas by Albert Bierstadt.

The Danish Constituent Assembly is a monumental oil painting by Constantin Hansen depicting the Danish Constituent Assembly's first meeting on 23 October 1848 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark. The painting was commissioned by merchant and National Liberal politician Afred Hage in 1860 and later donated by his widow to the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød where it is now on display.

The Dead Christ with Angels is an 1864 oil painting by French painter Édouard Manet. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Dead Man is an 1860s oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, produced during a period in which Manet was strongly influenced by Spanish themes and painters such as Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya and bullfighting. On 14 September 1865, Manet wrote to Baudelaire :One of the most beautiful, most curious and most terrible spectacles one can see is a bull hunt. On my return, I hope to put on canvas the brilliant, flickering and at the same time dramatic appearance of the corrida I attended.

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is a painting by English artist Richard Dadd. It was begun in 1855 and worked on until 1864. Dadd painted it while incarcerated in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum of Bethlem Royal Hospital, where he was confined after he murdered his father in 1843. It was commissioned by George Henry Haydon, who was head steward at Bethlem Royal Hospital at the time.

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter. In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and his Cabinet members reading over the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states rebelling against the Union in the American Civil War. Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet on July 22, 1862, and issued the Proclamation on September 22, 1862, which took effect on January 1, 1863.

The Great Day of Girona, originally El gran dia de Girona, is a large oil painting by Ramon Martí Alsina depicting an important victory of Girona's defenders over the French during the Third Siege of Girona in 1809. Completed in 1864, it is the largest easel painting in the history of Catalan art. The creation process took more than 10 years and led the artist nearly to financially ruin on several occasions. The painting became part of the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and it is on permanent display in the Girona in an auditorium of the Catalan Government building.

The Kearsarge at Boulogne is an oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet completed in 1864. It depicts the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge, victor of the Battle of Cherbourg over the rebel privateer CSS Alabama. The painting is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Man Proposes, God Disposes is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Landseer. The work was inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845. The painting is in the collection of Royal Holloway, University of London, and is the subject of superstitious urban myth that the painting is haunted.

The Meeting on the Turret Stairs is an 1864 watercolor painting by Frederic William Burton. The painting is in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Morgan le Fay is an 1864 oil-on-wood painting by British Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederick Sandys which portrays the Arthurian witch, and King Arthur's protector, Morgan le Fay. Le Fay is modeled by Sandys mistress Keomi Gray.

The Oak at Flagey or The Vercingetorix Oak is an 1864 landscape painting by Gustave Courbet, measuring 89 by 110 cm. It shows an oak near the Courbet family farm in the village of Flagey, Doubs, a few kilometres from Ornans in Franche-Comté, named in relation to Vercingetorix. The oak was later struck by lightning and no longer survives.

The Oath of Henri de Guise is an 1864 history painting by Pierre-Charles Comte, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. It formed part of the 2014 exhibition L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850. It shows Henry I, Duke of Guise as a child.

Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road to Delphi, notably portrayed at Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex.

The Painter's Honeymoon is a painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, produced c. 1864 and currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Pink Dress is an 1864 painting by Frédéric Bazille, produced when he was aged 23. The work is now in the Musée d'Orsay.

Poland – The Year 1863 or The Forging of Poland is an early and unfinished oil on canvas painting by Jan Matejko, painted in 1864 in response to his experiences during the January Uprising and now in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.

Self-Portrait is an oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The painting measures 25.2 x 20.9 inches and is part of the permanent collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. This painting is one of the last portraits by Ingres.

The Sermon of Piotr Skarga or Skarga's Sermon is a large oil painting by Jan Matejko, finished in 1864, now in the National Museum, Warsaw in Poland. It depicts a sermon on political matters by the Jesuit priest Piotr Skarga, a chief figure of the Counter Reformation in Poland, where he rebukes the Polish elite for neglecting the national interest.

Shepherdess with her Flock is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Jean-François Millet, now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

Souvenir de Mortefontaine is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It is a scene of tranquillity: a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat, tree-flanked lake.

Stetind in Fog is an oil painting by Peder Balke from 1864.

Symphony in White, No. 2, also known as The Little White Girl is a painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The work shows a woman in three-quarter figure standing by a fireplace with a mirror over it. She is holding a fan in her hand, and wearing a white dress. The model is Joanna Hiffernan, the artist's mistress. Though the painting was originally called The Little White Girl, Whistler later started calling it Symphony in White, No. 2. By referring to his work in such abstract terms, he intended to emphasize his "art for art's sake" philosophy. In this painting, Heffernan wears a ring on her ring finger, even though the two were not married. By this religious imagery, Whistler emphasizes the aesthetic philosophy behind his work.

The Source of the Loue is the name of several mid-19th century paintings by French artist Gustav Courbet. Done in oil on canvas, the paintings depict the Loue river in eastern France.

The French painter Honoré Daumier made at least three oil paintings entitled The Third-Class Carriage. In a realistic manner, Daumier depicts the poverty and fortitude of working class travellers in a third class railway carriage. One oil-on canvas version, dated to c. 1862–1864 but left unfinished, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and a similar but completed painting dated to c. 1863–1865 is in the National Gallery of Canada. A third oil-on-panel version, dated to c. 1856–1858, with a different arrangement of the main three figures, is held by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Valley of the Yosemite is a painting by Albert Bierstadt that was completed in 1864. Initially associated with the Hudson River School, Bierstadt rose to prominence for his paintings of the Rocky Mountains, which established him as one of the best painters of the western American landscape. His later paintings of Yosemite were also received with critical acclaim and public praise.