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. Works 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 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