# 1856 in art

Events from the year 1856 in art.

## Events

* May 1 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes up photography as a hobby
* 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
* 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 – Many Happy Returns of the Day
* 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
* Adeline Harris Sears - Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern (quilt begun)
* Eugene von Guerard – View of Geelong
* Henry Wallis – The Death of Chatterton

## 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)