Events from the year 1855 in art. Events July 3 – John Everett Millais and Effie Gray marry. May 15–November 15 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, including a salon for art. Gustave Courbet, having had several of his paintings rejected, including the monumental The Painter's Studio (L'Atelier du peintre, "a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life"), exhibits in a temporary Pavillon du Réalisme adjacent to the official show, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits Venus Anadyomene, which has taken him forty years to complete. William Bell Scott begins painting murals of Northumbrian history at Wallington Hall. The Bavarian National Museum is founded by King Maximilian II of Bavaria. Awards Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu Works Rosa Bonheur – The Horse Fair (1853–55; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Joanna Mary Boyce – Elgiva Ford Madox Brown – The Last of England Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Lord, Thy Will Be Done Théodore Chassériau – Macbeth and Banquo Meeting the Witches on the Heath Gustave Courbet – The Artist's Studio (L‘Atelier du Peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Edgar Degas – Self-portrait Johan Fredrik Höckert – Gudstjänst i Lövmokks fjällkapell Paul Huet – The Flood of Saint-Cloud George Inness – The Lackawanna Valley Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann – Double portrait of the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Frederic Leighton – Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna (1853-55) John Everett Millais – The Rescue Élias Robert with Georges Diebolt – France crowning Art and Industry (sculpture for Palais de l'Industrie at Exposition Universelle in Paris) José Rodrigues – O Pobre Rabequista Ary Scheffer – Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (Louvre version) Rebecca Solomon – The Story of Balaclava, wherein he spoke of the most disastrous chances Carl Wahlbom – Death of King Gustav II Adolf at the Battle of Lützen (1632) Franz Xaver Winterhalter – The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting Births January 4 – Jean Baptiste Guth, French watercolor portraitist (died 1922) January 31 – Karl Uchermann, Norwegian canine painter (died 1940) February 11 – Ellen Day Hale, American painter and printmaker (died 1940) February 25 – Frederick McCubbin, Australian painter of the Heidelberg School (died 1917) March 22 – Dorothy Tennant, English painter (died 1926) May 1 – Cecilia Beaux,