Editing 1864 in art (section)

==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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Moira|last=Shearer|authorlink=Moira Shearer|title=Ellen Terry|location=Stroud|publisher=Sutton|year=1998|series=Pocket biographies|isbn=0750915269}}</ref>
* [[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 (town), New York|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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mendelsohn|first=Ezra|title=Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art|publisher=Brandeis University Press|year=2002|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgXf_h6ZheEC&q=Stanisław+Chlebowski&pg=PA59|isbn=978-1-58465-179-6}}</ref>
* The [[National Gallery]] in London acquires the 15th century altarpiece ''[[The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius]]'' from [[Lord Taunton]].<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/carlo-crivelli-the-annunciation-with-saint-emidius|title=The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius|publisher=[[The National Gallery]]|accessdate=26 June 2015}}</ref>