1856 in art

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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

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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)

Thumb — Henry Wallis – *The Death of Chatterton*

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)
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- 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)

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