Events from the year 1864 in art. Events January 30 – National Gallery of Ireland opens to the public in Dublin in a building designed by Francis Fowke based on early plans by Charles Lanyon. February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. December 28 – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse established. December 30 – Julia Margaret Cameron sends John Herschel an album of her first year's photography including her iconic portrait of him. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is established as the Vassar College Art Gallery on the women's college campus in Poughkeepsie, New York (in the Hudson Valley) including the Magoon Collection of Hudson River School paintings donated by Matthew Vassar. Stanisław Chlebowski takes up a post as master painter to Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul. The National Gallery in London acquires the 15th century altarpiece The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius from Lord Taunton. Awards Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – Louis-Ernest Barrias Works Ramon Martí Alsina – The Great Day of Girona Frédéric Bazille – The Pink Dress (approximate date) François Bocion – Steamer on Lake Geneva – Evening Effect Ford Madox Brown Elijah and the Widow's Son (full-size oil version) King René's Honeymoon Francis Bicknell Carpenter – First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Souvenir de Mortefontaine Richard Dadd – The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke Honoré Daumier – The Third-Class Carriage (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Thomas Farrell – Memorial statue to John McNeil Boyd (St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) Anselm Feuerbach – Paolo and Francesca Sir Edwin Landseer – Man Proposes, God Disposes Henri Fantin-Latour Homage to Delacroix White Cup and Saucer Frederic Leighton – The Painter's Honeymoon John Frederick Lewis – Captive Dove, Cairo Daniel Maclise – The Death of Nelson (wall painting for Palace of Westminster and oil study) Édouard Manet Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges ("The Angels at Christ's Tomb") (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Branch of White Peonies and Pruning Shears (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Peonies (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) The Dead Toreador (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Women at the Races (Cincinnati Art Museum) Jan Matejko Kazanie Skargi Polonia Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – 1814: The Campaign