1854 in art
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Events
- July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled.[1]
Works
- Gustave Courbet
- La rencontre ("The Meeting" or "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
- The Wheat Sifters
- William Powell Frith – Ramsgate Sands
- Holman Hunt – The Light of the World
- Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
- John Everett Millais – John Ruskin
- Jean-François Millet – The Reaper
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Vienna Woods Landscape
- George Frederic Watts – Miss Mary Fox, with Spanish Pointer.
- Antoine Wiertz – L'Inhumation précipitée
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Dalip Singh
Births
- January 1 – Louis Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (died 1913)
- January 23 – Hans Brandstetter, sculptor (died 1925)
- February 10 – Giovanni Muzzioli, painter (died 1894)
- April 19 – Charles Angrand, neo-Impressionist painter (died 1926)
- May 21 – John F. Peto, painter (died 1907)
- July 21 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (died 1905)
- August 6 – W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (died 1932)
- August 12 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, sculptor (died 1934)
Deaths
- February 17 – John Martin, English painter and engraver (on the Isle of Man) (born 1789)
- March 13 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (born 1773)
- May 10 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1770)
- July 30 – Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (born 1788)
- August 29 – William Brockedon, English painter and inventor (born 1787)
- September 20 – Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect (born 1799)
- September 23 – Edward Wedlake Brayley, English antiquary and topographer (born 1773)
- September 29 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (born 1783)
- November 24 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (born 1794)
- December 22 – Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1786)
References
- ↑ James, William, ed. (1947). The Order of Release: the story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais told for the first time in their unpublished letters. London: John Murray. p. 237.