# 1857 in art

The following is a list of events from 1857 in art.

## Events

* June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.
* Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends begin painting the Oxford Union murals; Jane Burden first models for them.

## 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. Photographs are admitted.

## Works

* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
** Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
** The Destruction of Sodom
* Gustave Courbet – Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable
* Thomas Couture
** The Supper after the Masked Ball
** The Duel after the Masked Ball
* Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Duel After the Masquerade (Suite d'un bal masqué) (original version)
* Hiroshige – Prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo including Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake
* Robert Howlett – Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (photograph)
* Arthur Hughes – The Mother's Grave
* Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov – The Appearance of Christ Before the People (begun 1837)
* Rudolf Koller – Cow in a Vegetable Garden (Die Kuh im Krautgarten)
* Benjamin Williams Leader – A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch
* John Frederick Lewis – The Coffee Bearer
* Octave Penguilly L'Haridon – Combat of the Thirty
* Daniel Maclise – Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard
* John Everett Millais – A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford
* Jean-François Millet (both Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
** The Angelus (original version)
** The Gleaners
* Philip Richard Morris – The Good Samaritan
* Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless
* O. G. Rejlander – The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
* Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel – Goethe–Schiller Monument
* Raden Saleh – The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
* Jozef Van Lerius – Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh
* Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Corpus Christi Morning
* Henry Wallis – The Stonebreaker
* August Wredow – Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus (sculpture, Berlin)

## Births

* February 12 – Eugène Atget, French photographer (died 1927)
* May 17 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (died 1920)
* July 30 – Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter (died 1932)
* July 31 – Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (died 1926)
* September 10 – Adolphe Demange, French portrait painter (died 1927)
* September 22 – Étienne Terrus, French painter (died 1922)
* October 23 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (died 1899)
* November 18 – Stanhope Forbes, British painter of the Newlyn school (died 1947)
* November 21 – Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter (died 1929)
* December 7 – Uroš Predić, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić (died 1953)
* December 8 – Anna Bilińska, Polish painter (died 1893)
* December 22 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (died 1930)
* December 23 – Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (died 1943)
* date unknown – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (died 1944)

## Deaths

* January 30 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born 1777)
* March 18 – Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born c.1775)
* May 1 – Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (born 1813)
* May 16 – Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (born 1776)
* June 11 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (born 1779)
* October 10 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (born 1814)
* October 14 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (born 1788)
* October 27 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
* November 14 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (born 1797)
* December 3 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (born 1777)
* December 16 – William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (born 1782)
* December 23 – Achille Devéria, French portrait painter and lithographer (born 1800)
* date unknown
** Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (born 1819)
** Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (born 1790)