1854 in art

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Events from the year 1854 in art.

Events

• July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled.^[1]

Works

Courbet – La rencontre

• 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, American sculptor (died 1913)
• January 23 – Hans Brandstetter, Austrian sculptor (died 1925)
• February 10 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (died 1894)
• April 19 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1926)
• May 21 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter (died 1907)
• July 21 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (died 1905)
• August 6 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (died 1932)
• August 12 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (died 1934)
• December 10 – Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter (died 1931)

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

1. 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 The Order of Release: the story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais told for the first time in their unpublished letters.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.