1857 in art

Events

June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.^[1]
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.

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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)^[3]
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)

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)

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