1856 in art

Events

Awards

• Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture - Joseph Boehm

Works

• Hiroshige – Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge
• 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

• January 7 - Charles Harold Davis, painter (d. 1933)
• January 8 - Elizabeth Taylor, painter (d. 1932)
• January 12 - John Singer Sargent, painter (d. 1925)
• March 8 - Colin Campbell Cooper, painter (d. 1937)
• March 9 - Tom Roberts, painter (d. 1931)
• 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)

Deaths

• January 4 - Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver......
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