1857 in art
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[edit] Events
- May 5–October 17 - The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.[1]
- June 22 - The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.[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.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1857 paintings
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
- 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)
- Henry Wallis - The Stonebreaker
[edit] Births
- February 12 - Eugène Atget, photographer (d. 1927)
- July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (d. 1932)
- July 31 - Adolphe Willette, illustrator (d. 1926)
- October 23 - Juan Luna, painter (d. 1899)
- November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (d. 1947)
- date unknown
- Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (d. 1944)
- William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (d. 1930)
[edit] Deaths
- May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (b. 1776)
- June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (b. 1779)
- October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor (b. 1814)
- October 14 - Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1788)
- December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (b. 1777)
- December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (b. 1800)
- date unknown - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (b. 1813)
[edit] References
- ^ Exhibition of art treasures of the United Kingdom, held at Manchester in 1857: report of the Executive Committee. 1859. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=odcHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ Sheppard, F.H.W., ed. (1975). Survey of London XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster. p. 99.
