1857 in art

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Events from the year 1857 in art.

Events

• June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.^[1]
• Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.

Exhibitions

• May 5 – October 17 – The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time.^[2] Photographs are admitted.

Works

Millet – The Gleaners

• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
• Hiroshige – Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge
• Arthur Hughes – The Mother's Grave
• Rudolf Koller – Cow in a Vegetable Garden (Die Kuh im Krautgarten)
• Benjamin Williams Leader – A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch
• John Frederick Lewis – The Coffee Bearer
• Octave Penguilly L'Haridon – Combat of the Thirty
• Daniel Maclise – Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard
• 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)
• Philip Richard Morris – The Good Samaritan
• Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless
• O. G. Rejlander – The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
• Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel – Goethe–Schiller Monument
• Raden Saleh – The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Corpus Christi Morning
• Henry Wallis – The Stonebreaker

Births

• February 12 – Eugène Atget, photographer (died 1927)
• July 30 – Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (died 1932)
• July 31 – Adolphe Willette, illustrator (died 1926)
• September 10 – Adolphe Demange, portrait painter (died 1927)
• October 23 – Juan Luna, painter (died 1899)
• November 18 – Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school (died 1947)
• December 7 – Uroš Predić, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić (died 1953)
• December 22 – William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (died 1930)
• date unknown – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (died 1944)

Deaths

• January 30 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born 1777)
• May 1 – Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (born 1813)
• May 16 – Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (born 1776)
• June 11 – Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (born 1779)
• October 10 – Thomas Crawford, sculptor (born 1814)
• October 14 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (born 1788)
• October 27 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
• November 14 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (born 1797)
• December 3 – Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (born 1777)
• December 16 – William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (born 1782)
• December 23 – Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer (born 1800)
• date unknown
  • Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born 1775)
  • Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (born 1819)
  • Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (born 1790)

References

1. Sheppard, F.H.W., ed. (1975). Survey of London XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster. p. 99.
2. Exhibition of art treasures of the United Kingdom, held at Manchester in 1857: report of the Executive Committee. 1859.