- 1857 in art
Events
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Lewis Carroll meetsJohn Ruskin and begins to associate with thePre-Raphaelite s. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his "Political Economy of Art".Works
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - "The Destruction of Sodom" (The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York)
*Jean François Millet - "The Gleaners"Births
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July 30 -Lucy Bacon , Impressionist painter (d. 1932)
*October 23 -Juan Luna , painter (d. 1899)
*November 18 -Stanhope Forbes , painter of theNewlyn school (d. 1947)
*Eugène Atget , photographer (d. 1927)
* Esther Kenworthy, flower painter (d. 1944)
*Adolphe Willette , illustrator (d. 1926)Deaths
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May 16 -Vasily Andreevich Tropinin , painter (b. 1776)
*June 11 -Moritz Retzsch , painter and etcher (b. 1779)
*October 10 - Thomas Crawford, sculptor (b. 1814)
*October 14 -Johan Christian Dahl , Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1788)
*December 3 -Christian Daniel Rauch , sculptor (b. 1777)
*December 23 -Achille Devéria , painter and lithographer (b. 1800)
*Frederick Scott Archer , sculptor and photographic pioneer (b. 1813)
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