1854 in art
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Events from the year 1854 in art.
Events
- May 1 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1854 opens at the National Gallery in London
- July 15 â The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled.[1]
- November 27 â André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents a method of producing carte de visite photographs in France.
Works
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- Gustav Bläser â Athena Protects the Young Hero, Berlin
- Charles Allston Collins â The Good Harvest of 1854[2]
- Gustave Courbet
- La rencontre ("The Meeting" or "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
- The Wheat Sifters
- David Cox â Rhyl Sands
- William Powell Frith â Ramsgate Sands
- Nicolas Gosse â Napoleon III Visiting the Construction Site of the Louvre[3]
- Holman Hunt â The Light of the World
- John William Inchbold â The Moorland
- Daniel Maclise â The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
- John Everett Millais â John Ruskin
- Jean-François Millet â The Reaper
- John Phillip
- Clarkson Stanfield â View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees[4]
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller â Vienna Woods Landscape
- Edward Matthew Ward â Charles II and Nell Gwyn[5]
- George Frederic Watts â Miss Mary Fox, with Spanish Pointer
- Antoine Wiertz â L'Inhumation précipitée
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â Dalip Singh
Births
- January 1 â Louis Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1913)
- January 23 â Hans Brandstetter, Austrian sculptor (died 1925)
- February 10 â Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (died 1894)
- March 25 â Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (died 1928)
- April 19 â Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1926)
- May 21 â John F. Peto, American trompe-l'Åil painter (died 1907)
- June 24 â Eleanor Norcross, American painter (died 1923)
- July 21 â Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (died 1905)
- August 6 â W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (died 1932)
- August 12 â Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (died 1934)
- December 10 â Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter (died 1931)
- Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (died 1938)
- Egisto Massoni, Italian painter (died 1929)
- Francesco Porzio, Italian sculptor (died 1954)
Deaths
- February 2 â Walter Deverell, American-born English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1827)
- February 17 â John Martin, English painter and engraver (on the Isle of Man) (born 1789)
- March 13 â Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (born 1773)
- May 10 â George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1770)
- July 30 â Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (born 1788)
- August 29 â William Brockedon, English painter and inventor (born 1787)
- September 20 â Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect (born 1799)
- September 23 â Edward Wedlake Brayley, English antiquary and topographer (born 1773)
- September 29 â Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (born 1783)
- November 24 â Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (born 1794)
- December 22 â Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1786)