- 1856 in art
Events
Awards
*Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture -
Joseph Boehm Works
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Samuel Colman - "Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway"
*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - "La Source"
*John Everett Millais - "The Blind Girl"
*Eugene von Guerard - "View of Geelong "Births
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January 7 -Charles Harold Davis , painter (d. 1933)
*January 12 -John Singer Sargent , painter (d. 1925)
*March 20 -John Lavery , Irish painter (d.1941)
*May 20 -Henri-Edmond Cross , painter (d. 1910)
*October 28 -Anna Elizabeth Klumpke , portrait and genre painter (d. 1942)
*Franz Ittenbach , religious painter (d. 1879)Deaths
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January 4 -Pierre Jean David , sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (b. 1788)
*April 27 -Louis Joseph César Ducornet , painter (used his feet) (b. 1806)
*October 8 -Théodore Chassériau , painter (b. 1819)
*November 6 -Cephas Thompson , portrait painter (b. 1775)
*November 23 -Thomas Seddon , landscape painter (b. 1821)
* Thomas Doughty, landscape painter (b. 1793)
* Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor (b. 1775)
*Hippolyte Delaroche , French painter (b. 1797)
*Naitō Toyomasa -Japan ese sculptor ofnetsuke fromTamba Province (b. 1773)
*István Ferenczy - Hungariansculptor (b. 1792)
*Kim Jeonghui -Korea n calligrapher and artist (b. 1786)
*Charles de Steuben - French painter active during theNapoleonic Era (b. 1788)
*Johann Peter Krafft - German-Austrian painter (b. 1780)
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