1856 in art
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[edit] Events
- (unknown)
[edit] Awards
- Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture - Joseph Boehm
[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] Births
- January 7 - Charles Harold Davis, painter
- January 12 - John Singer Sargent, painter
- March 20 - John Lavery, Irish painter (d.1941)
- 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
