1857 in art
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[edit] Events
- Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.
[edit] Works
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Destruction of Sodom (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Jean François Millet - "The Gleaners"
[edit] Births
- 'July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter
- October 23 - Juan Luna, painter
- November 18 - Stanhope Forbes, painter of the Newlyn school
- date unknown - Eugène Atget, photographer
- date unknown - Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco, art nouveau architect
- date unknown - Esther Kenworthy, flower painter
- date unknown - Adolphe Willette, illustrator
- date unknown - Charles Voysey, architect
[edit] Deaths
- May 16 - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter
- June 11 - Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher
- October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor
- December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor
- December 23 - Achille Devéria, painter and lithographer
- date unknown - Frederick Scott Archer, sculptor and photographic pioneer
- date unknown - Johan Christian Dahl, landscape painter
- date unknown - William Henry Playfair, architect
