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]

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)
• Arthur Hughes - The Mother's Grave
• 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)
• Emily Mary Osborn - Nameless and Friendless
• O. G. Rejlander - The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
• Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel - Goethe–Schiller Monument
• Henry Wallis - The Stonebreaker

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)
• December 22 - William Wells Quatremain, landscape painter (d. 1930)
• date unknown - Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, flower painter (d. 1944)

Deaths

• May 1 - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer (b. 1813)
• 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)

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