1857 in art

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Contents

1 Events
2 Works
3 Births
4 Deaths

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.

Works

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
John Everett Millais - A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford
Jean François Millet - The Gleaners and original version of The Angelus (both Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Emily Mary Osborn - Nameless and Friendless
O. G. Rejlander - The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
Henry Wallis – The Stonebreaker

Births

February 12 - Eugène Atget, photographer (d. 1927)
July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (d. 1932)
July 31 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (d. 1926)
October 23 - Juan Luna, painter (d. 1899)
November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (d. 1947)
date unknown
- Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (d. 1944)
- William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (d. 1930)

Deaths

May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (b. 1776)
June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (b. 1779)
October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor (b. 1814)
October 14 - Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1788)
December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (b. 1777)
December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (b. 1800)
date unknown - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (b. 1813)