Events from the year 1856 in art.
Events March 19 – A settlement is approved in the Court of Chancery establishing the Turner Bequest to the nation May 1 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes up photography as a hobby May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1856 opens at the National Gallery in London July – Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, paints an image of the local wild poppies on a pilaster at her home of Wallington Hall, Northumberland (England), her most noted contribution to the Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece that is the central hall hereWallington: An Illustrated Souvenir. National Trust, 1982.ArtUK. August 25 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti first encounters Fanny Cornforth (Sarah Cox) in a London pleasure garden; the following day he sketches her head in his studio for the figure of a prostitute in his unfinished painting Found December 2 – The National Portrait Gallery, London, is established December 8 – Édouard Manet opens his own studio Owen Jones publishes The Grammar of Ornament, illustrated in chromolithography
Awards Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture – Joseph Boehm
Works
Ivan Aivazovsky – A Strong Wind William-Adolphe Bouguereau – La Danse (approximate date) Ford Madox Brown – Take your Son, Sir! (unfinished) Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Broken Vows Théodore Chassériau Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath Susanna and the Elders Samuel Colman – Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway Édouard Dubufe – The Congress of Paris John Faed – Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton William Powell Frith Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini'shttps://onlineonly.christies.com/s/british-european-art/william-powell-frith-r-a-british-1819-1909-111/156066 Many Happy Returns of the Dayhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/many-happy-returns-of-the-day-9040/search/venue:the-mercer-art-gallery-harrogate-3380/page/2/view_as/grid Hiroshige – One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (ukiyo-e woodblock print series begins publication) Arthur Hughes – April Love William Holman Hunt – The Scapegoat (large version) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Madame Moitessier La Source Jozef Israëls – Passing Mother's Grave (Langs Moeders Graf) Sir Edwin Landseer – Saved Baron Carlo Marochetti – Richard Coeur de Lion (statue) John Everett Millais Autumn Leaves The Blind Girl Peace Concluded Jean-François Millet – Shepherdess Seated on a Rock Henry Nelson O'Neil – The Pre-Raphaelitehttps://onlineonly.christies.com/s/british-european-art/henry-nelson-oneil-a-r-a-british-1817-1880-44/138578 Adeline Harris Sears – Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern (quilt begun) Horace Vernet – Zouaves at the Malakoffhttps://www.rct.uk/collection/406470/zouaves-at-the-malakoff Eugene von Guerard – View of Geelong Henry Wallis – The Death of Chatterton Edward Matthew Ward Byron's Early Lovehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/byrons-early-love-a-dream-of-annesley-hall-206344 The Last Parting of Marie Antoinette and Her Sonhttps://www.christies.com.cn/en/lot/lot-5857456
Births January 7 – Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (died 1933) January 8 – Elizabeth Taylor, American painter (died 1932) January 12 – John Singer Sargent, Florentine-born American portrait painter (died 1925) February 29 – John Ward Dunsmore, American painter (died 1945) March 8 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist painter (died 1937) March 9 – Tom Roberts, Australian painter (died 1931) March 11 – Georges Petit, French art dealer (died 1920) May 20 – Henri-Edmond Cross, French neo-impressionist painter (died 1910) October 9 – F. W. Pomeroy, English sculptor (died 1924) October 28 Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (died 1935) Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, American portrait and genre painter (died 1942) November 6 – Jefferson David Chalfant, American trompe-l'œil painter (died 1931) November 11 – Alfred Drury, English sculptor (died 1944) November 18 – Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (died 1933) November 21 – Eveleen Tennant, English portrait photographer (died 1937) Undated – Harry Fidler, English equine painter (died 1935)
Deaths
January 4 – David d'Angers (Pierre-Jean David), French sculptor and engraver (born 1788) April 5 – František Horčička, Czech history and portrait painter (born 1776) April 27 – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (born 1806) July 4 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (born 1792) July 19 – Henry Aston Barker, Scottish landscape and panorama painter (born 1774) July 22 – Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (born 1793) September 1 – Sir Richard Westmacott, English sculptor (born 1775) October – Rafael Tegeo, Spanish Neoclassical painter (born 1798) October 8 – Théodore Chassériau, French Romantic painter (born 1819) October 10 – Gim Jeong-hui, Korean calligrapher and artist (born 1786) October 25 – Naitō Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province (born 1773) October 28 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (born 1780) November 4 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (born 1797) November 6 – Cephas Thompson, American portrait painter (born 1775) November 13 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (born 1770) November 21 – Charles de Steuben, French painter (born 1788) November 23 – Thomas Seddon, English landscape painter (born 1821) date unknown Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (born 1796) Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (born 1770) Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish and Russian painter (born 1789) Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman (born 1782)
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