1858 in art

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Events

• John Ruskin meets Rose la Touche.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) - Jean-Jacques Henner

Works

Misfortune from Augustus Egg's Past and Present

• Edward Armitage - Retribution
• 'Lewis Carroll' - Alice Liddell as a beggar child (photograph)
• Augustus Egg - Past and Present (triptych)
• William Henry Fisk - The Secret
• William Powell Frith
  • The Derby Day
  • The Crossing Sweeper
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Self-Portrait at the Age of 78 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
• Édouard Manet - The Boy with Cherries (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon)
• William Morris - La belle Iseult
• David Roberts
  • Edinburgh from the Calton Hill
  • The interior of the Collegiate Church of St Paul at Antwerp
• Edward Washburn - The Arkansas Traveller

Births

• January 6 - Albert Henry Munsell, American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system (d. 1918)
• January 10 - Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (d. 1929)
• March 13 - Maximilien Luce, painter (d. 1941)
• June 20 - Medardo Rosso, sculptor (d. 1928)
• September 12 - Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter (d. 1921)
• October 30 - Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (d. 1927)
• November 30 - Rosa Mayreder, painter and musician (d. 1938)

Deaths

• April 9 - Joseph Stieler, German painter (b. 1781)
• May 18 - Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm, Swedish diplomat who made paintings of the countries in which he served (b. 1790)
• June 15 - Ary Scheffer, painter (b. 1795)
• July 15 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (b. 1806)
• October 12 - Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (b. 1797)
• date unknown - John Hogan, sculptor (b. 1800)