1856 in art explained
Events from the year 1856 in art.
Events
Awards
- Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture – Joseph Boehm
Works
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
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern . The Metropolitan Museum of Art . August 30, 2022.
