1857 in art

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See also: 1856 in art, other 1857 events, 1858 in art, list of years in art

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.

[edit] Works

Jean François Millet paints "The Gleaners"

[edit] Births

• October 23 - Juan Luna, painter
• November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school
• date unknown - Eugène Atget, photographer
• date unknown - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter
• date unknown - Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco, art nouveau architect
• date unknown - Esther Kenworthy, flower painter
• date unknown - Adolphe Willette, illustrator
• date unknown - Charles Voysey, architect

[edit] Deaths

• May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter
• June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher
• October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor
• December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor
• December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer
• date unknown - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer
• date unknown - Johan Christian Dahl, landscape painter
• date unknown - William Henry Playfair, architect