1856 in art

Events from the year 1856 in art.

Events

March 19 â A settlement is approved in the Court of Chancery establishing the Turner Bequest to the nation
May 1 â Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes up photography as a hobby
May 5 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1856 opens at the National Gallery in London
August 25 â Dante Gabriel Rossetti first encounters Fanny Cornforth (Sarah Cox) in a London pleasure garden; the following day he sketches her head in his studio for the figure of a prostitute in his unfinished painting Found
December 2 â The National Portrait Gallery, London, is established
December 8 â Ãdouard Manet opens his own studio
Owen Jones publishes The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated in chromolithography

January 7 â Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (died 1933)
January 8 â Elizabeth Taylor, American painter (died 1932)
January 12 â John Singer Sargent, Florentine-born American portrait painter (died 1925)
February 29 - John Ward Dunsmore, American painter (died 1945)
March 8 â Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist painter (died 1937)
March 9 â Tom Roberts, Australian painter (died 1931)
March 11 â Georges Petit, French art dealer (died 1920)
May 20 â Henri-Edmond Cross, French neo-impressionist painter (died 1910)
October 9 - F. W. Pomeroy, English sculptor (died 1924)
October 28
- Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (died 1935)
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, American portrait and genre painter (died 1942)
November 6 â Jefferson David Chalfant, American trompe-l'Åil painter (died 1931)
November 11 - Alfred Drury, English sculptor (died 1944)
November 18 â Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (died 1933)
November 21 â Eveleen Tennant, English portrait photographer (died 1937)
Undated â Harry Fidler, English equine painter (died 1935)

January 4 â David d'Angers (Pierre-Jean David), French sculptor and engraver (born 1788)
April 5 â FrantiÅ¡ek HorÄiÄka, Czech history and portrait painter (born 1776)
July 4 â IstvÃ¡n Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (born 1792)
July 19 â Henry Aston Barker, Scottish landscape and panorama painter (born 1774)
July 22 â Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (born 1793)
September 1 â Sir Richard Westmacott, English sculptor (born 1775)
October â Rafael Tegeo, Spanish Neoclassical painter (born 1798)
October 10 â Gim Jeong-hui, Korean calligrapher and artist (born 1786)
October 25 â NaitÅ Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province (born 1773)
October 28 â Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (born 1780)
November 4 â Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (born 1797)
November 6 â Cephas Thompson, American portrait painter (born 1775)
November 13 â Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (born 1770)
November 21 â Charles de Steuben, French painter (born 1788)
November 23 â Thomas Seddon, English landscape painter (born 1821)
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- Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (born 1796)
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (born 1770)
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish and Russian painter (born 1789)
- Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman (born 1782)