1857 in art
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Events
- June 22 - The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.[1]
- Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.
Exhibitions
- May 5 – October 17 - The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.[2]
Works
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
- Arthur Hughes - The Mother's Grave
- Benjamin Williams Leader - A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch
- John Frederick Lewis - The Coffee Bearer
- Daniel Maclise - Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard
- 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)
- Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel - Goethe–Schiller Monument
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Corpus Christi Morning
- Henry Wallis - The Stonebreaker
Births
- February 12 - Eugène Atget, photographer (died 1927)
- July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (died 1932)
- July 31 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (died 1926)
- October 23 - Juan Luna, painter (died 1899)
- November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (died 1947)
- December 7 - Uroš Predić, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić (died 1953)
- December 22 - William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (died 1930)
- date unknown - Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 30 - Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born 1777)
- May 1 - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (born 1813)
- May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (born 1776)
- June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (born 1779)
- October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor (born 1814)
- October 14 - Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (born 1788)
- October 27 - John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
- December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (born 1777)
- December 16 - William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (born 1782)
- December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (born 1800)
- date unknown
- Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born 1775)
- Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (born 1819)
- Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (born 1790)
References
- ↑ Sheppard, F.H.W., ed. (1975). Survey of London XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster. p. 99.
- ↑ Exhibition of art treasures of the United Kingdom, held at Manchester in 1857: report of the Executive Committee. 1859.
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