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The following is a list of events from
1857 in art
.
Contents
Events
Exhibitions
Works
Births
Deaths
References
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
.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
,
William Morris
and Pre-Raphaelite friends begin painting the
Oxford Union murals
;
Jane Burden
first models for them.
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
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
–
Portrait of John Gibson
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le concert champêtre
(
Musée Condé
,
Chantilly
)
The Destruction of Sodom
Gustave Courbet
–
Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable
Thomas Couture
The Supper after the Masked Ball
The Duel after the Masked Ball
Jean-Léon Gérôme
–
The Duel After the Masquerade
(Suite d'un bal masqué)
(original version)
Francis Grant
–
Portrait of Daisy Grant
Hiroshige
– Prints from
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
including
Plum Park in Kameido
and
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake
Robert Howlett
–
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern
(photograph)
Arthur Hughes
–
The Mother's Grave
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
–
The Appearance of Christ Before the People
(begun 1837)
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
(both
Musée d'Orsay
,
Paris
)
The Angelus
(original version)
The Gleaners
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
Jozef Van Lerius
–
Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
–
Corpus Christi Morning
Henry Wallis
–
The Stonebreaker
August Wredow –
Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus
(sculpture, Berlin)
Births
February 12
–
Eugène Atget
, French photographer (died
1927
)
May 17
–
Mary Devens
, American pictorial photographer (died
1920
)
July 30
–
Lucy Bacon
, American Impressionist painter (died
1932
)
July 31
–
Adolphe Willette
, French illustrator (died
1926
)
September 10
–
Adolphe Demange
, French portrait painter (died
1927
)
September 22
–
Étienne Terrus
, French painter (died
1922
)
October 23
–
Juan Luna
, Filipino painter (died
1899
)
November 18
–
Stanhope Forbes
, British painter of the
Newlyn school
(died
1947
)
November 21
–
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
, Portuguese painter (died
1929
)
[
3
]
December 7
–
Uroš Predić
, one of the top three Serbian
Realist
painters, along with
Paja Jovanović
and
Đorđe Krstić
(died
1953
)
December 8
–
Anna Bilińska
, Polish painter (died
1893
)
December 22
–
W. W. Quatremain
, English landscape painter (died
1930
)
December 23
–
Georges Picard
, French decorative artist and illustrator (died
1943
)
date unknown
–
Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse
, English flower painter (died
1944
)
Deaths
January 30
–
Agostino Aglio
, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born
1777
)
March 18
–
Nathan Cooper Branwhite
, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born c.
1775
)
May 1
–
Frederick Scott Archer
, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (born
1813
)
May 16
–
Vasily Tropinin
, Russian painter (born
1776
)
June 11
–
Moritz Retzsch
, German painter and etcher (born
1779
)
October 10
–
Thomas Crawford
, American 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
, German sculptor (born
1777
)
December 16
–
William Havell
, English landscape painter, part of the
Havell family
(born
1782
)
December 23
–
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
)
References
↑
Sheppard, F. H. W.
, ed. (1975).
Survey of London XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster
. p.
99.
↑
Exhib, Manchester art Treasures (1859).
Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, held at Manchester in 1857: report of the Executive Committee
.
↑
Portugal: An Informative Review
. Secretariado Nacional da Informação. 1964. p.
54.
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