Events from the year 1854 in art.
Events May 1 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1854 opens at the National Gallery in London July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled. November 27 – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents a method of producing carte de visite photographs in France.
Works
Gustav Bläser – Athena Protects the Young Hero, Berlin Ford Madox Brown – An English Autumn Afternoonhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-english-autumn-afternoon-33599 Charles Allston Collins – The Good Harvest of 1854https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O15025/the-good-harvest-of-1854-oil-painting-collins-charles-allston/ Gustave Courbet La rencontre ("The Meeting" or "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") (Musée Fabre, Montpellier) The Wheat Sifters David Cox – Rhyl Sands William Powell Frith – Ramsgate Sands Nicolas Gosse – Napoleon III Visiting the Construction Site of the Louvrehttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/00000104494 Holman Hunt – The Light of the World John William Inchbold – The Moorland Charles-Philippe Larivière – Portrait of Marshal Saint-Arnaudhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005195 Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow John Everett Millais – John Ruskin Jean-François Millet – The Reaper John Phillip El Paseo The Letter Writer of Seville Clarkson Stanfield – View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyreneeshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view-of-the-pic-du-midi-dossau-in-the-pyrenees-with-brigands-12618 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Vienna Woods Landscape Edward Matthew Ward Charles II and Nell Gwynhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/charles-ii-16301685-and-nell-gwyn-16501687-31183 The Last Sleep of the Earl of Argyllhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-last-sleep-of-the-earl-of-argyll-165805 George Frederic Watts – Miss Mary Fox, with Spanish Pointer Antoine Wiertz – L'Inhumation précipitée Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Dalip Singh
Births January 1 – Louis Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1913) January 23 – Hans Brandstetter, Austrian sculptor (died 1925) February 10 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (died 1894) March 25 – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer (died 1928) April 19 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1926) May 21 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter (died 1907) June 24 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (died 1923) July 21 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (died 1905) August 6 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (died 1932) August 12 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (died 1934) December 10 – Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter (died 1931) Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (died 1938) Egisto Massoni, Italian painter (died 1929) Francesco Porzio, Italian sculptor (died 1954)
Deaths February 2 – Walter Deverell, American-born English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1827) February 17 – John Martin, English painter and engraver (on the Isle of Man) (born 1789) March 13 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (born 1773) May 10 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1770) July 30 – Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (born 1788) August 29 – William Brockedon, English painter and inventor (born 1787) September 20 – Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect (born 1799) September 23 – Edward Wedlake Brayley, English antiquary and topographer (born 1773) September 29 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (born 1783) November 24 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (born 1794) December 22 – Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1786)
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