1856 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• (unknown)

[edit] Works

• Samuel Colman - Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - La Source
• John Everett Millais - The Blind Girl
• Eugene von Guerard - View of Geelong

[edit] Awards

• Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture - Joseph Boehm

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Charles Harold Davis, painter
• January 12 - John Singer Sargent, painter
• October 28 - Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, portrait and genre painter
• May 20 - Henri-Edmond Cross, painter

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers")
• April 27 - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (used his feet)
• October 8 - Théodore Chassériau, painter
• November 6 - Cephas Thompson, portrait painter
• November 23 - Thomas Seddon, landscape painter
• date unknown - Thomas Doughty, landscape painter
• date unknown - Thomas Hopper, country house architect
• date unknown - David Laing, architect
• date unknown - Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor