1857 in art
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The following is a list of events from 1857 in art.
Events
- May 4 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857 opens at the National Gallery in London
- June 15 â The Salon of 1857 opens in Paris
- June 22 â The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.[1]
- The Sheepshanks Gift takes place. The art collector John Sheepshanks donates a large number of paintings to the nation, forming the basis of the collection of the new Victoria and Albert Museum[2]
- Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends begin painting the Oxford Union murals; Jane Burden first models for them.
Exhibitions
- May 5âOctober 17 â The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.[3] Photographs are admitted.
Works
- Jerry Barrett â Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari
- Margaret Sarah Carpenter â Portrait of John Gibson
- Edward William Cooke â Morning After a Heavy Gale
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
- The Destruction of Sodom
- Gustave Courbet â Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable
- Thomas Couture
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â
- Francis Grant â Portrait of Daisy Grant
- Hiroshige â Prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo including Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Åhashi bridge and Atake
- Robert Howlett â Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (photograph)
- Arthur Hughes â The Mother's Grave
- Gerolamo Induno â The Battle of the Chernaya
- Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov â The Appearance of Christ Before the People (begun 1837)
- Rudolf Koller â Cow in a Vegetable Garden (Die Kuh im Krautgarten)
- Edwin Landseer â Uncle Tom
- Benjamin Williams Leader â A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch
- John Frederick Lewis â The Coffee Bearer
- Octave Penguilly L'Haridon â The Combat of the Thirty
- Daniel Maclise â Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard
- John Everett Millais â A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford
- Jean-François Millet (both Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- The Angelus (original version)
- The Gleaners
- Philip Richard Morris â The Good Samaritan
- Emily Mary Osborn â Nameless and Friendless
- O. G. Rejlander â The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
- Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel â GoetheâSchiller Monument
- David Roberts â The Piazza Navona at Rome
- Raden Saleh â The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
- Jozef Van Lerius â Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh
- Horace Vernet
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller â Corpus Christi Morning
- Henry Wallis â The Stonebreaker
- August Wredow â Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus (sculpture, Berlin)
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Births
- February 12 â Eugène Atget, French photographer (died 1927)
- May 17 â Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (died 1920)
- July 30 â Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter (died 1932)
- July 31 â Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (died 1926)
- September 10 â Adolphe Demange, French portrait painter (died 1927)
- September 22 â Ãtienne Terrus, French painter (died 1922)
- October 23 â Juan Luna, Filipino painter (died 1899)
- November 18 â Stanhope Forbes, British painter of the Newlyn school (died 1947)
- November 21 â Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter (died 1929)[6]
- December 7 â UroÅ¡ PrediÄ, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja JovanoviÄ and ÄorÄe KrstiÄ (died 1953)
- December 8 â Anna BiliÅska, Polish painter (died 1893)
- December 22 â W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (died 1930)
- December 23 â Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (died 1943)
- date unknown â Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 30 â Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born 1777)
- March 18 â Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born c.1775)
- May 1 â Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (born 1813)
- May 16 â Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (born 1776)
- June 11 â Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (born 1779)
- October 10 â Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (born 1814)
- October 14 â Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (born 1788)
- October 27 â John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
- November 14 â Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (born 1797)
- December 3 â Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (born 1777)
- December 16 â William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (born 1782)
- December 23 â Achille Devéria, French portrait painter and lithographer (born 1800)
- date unknown
- Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (born 1819)
- Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (born 1790)