1856 in art
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- Samuel ColmanSamuel ColmanSamuel Colman was an American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River....
- Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway - HiroshigeHiroshigewas a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred to as Andō Hiroshige and by the art name of Ichiyūsai Hiroshige ....
- Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge - Jean Auguste Dominique IngresJean Auguste Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
- La Source - John Everett MillaisJohn Everett MillaisSir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
- The Blind Girl - Eugene von GuerardEugene von GuerardJohann Joseph Eugene von GuérardHis first name is variously spelled "Eugen", "Eugene", "Eugène", one source mentions "Jean" ; his surname is spelled "Guerard" or "Guérard". The most frequent combination is that used by the National Gallery of Australia: "Eugene von Guérard"...
- View of GeelongView of GeelongView Of Geelong is an 1856 oil painting on canvas by Eugene von Guerard. The painting is currently owned by the City of Greater Geelong after being purchased from English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for $3.8M... - Henry WallisHenry WallisHenry Wallis was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector.Born in London on 21 February 1830, his father's name and occupation are unknown. When in 1845 his mother, Mary Anne Thomas, married Andrew Wallis, a prosperous London architect, Henry took his stepfather's surname. His...
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- January 7 - Charles Harold DavisCharles Harold DavisCharles Harold Davis was an American landscape painter.-Biography:He was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts. A pupil of the schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he was sent to Paris in 1880...
, painter (d. 19331933 in artThis article is part of List of years in Art-Events:*Closure of the Bauhaus.*Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.*The mural, Man at the Crossroads, by Diego Rivera, is removed from the Rockefeller Center in New York because it contained a portrait of Lenin.*Käthe Kollwitz is forced...
) - January 8 - Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor (painter)Elizabeth Taylor was an American artist, journalist, botanist and traveller. Her travel essays from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway were published in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Forest and Stream and others...
, painter (d. 19321932 in art-Events:*Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.*Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.*The Wedgwood pottery firm commissions its first designs from Keith Murray.-Paintings:*Frank Brangwyn - British Empire Panels...
) - January 12 - John Singer SargentJohn Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
, painter (d. 19251925 in art-Events:*Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.*In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style...
) - March 8 - Colin Campbell CooperColin Campbell CooperColin Campbell Cooper, Jr. was an American Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural...
, painter (d. 19371937 in art-Events:* May–June - Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a cubistic mural created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April...
) - March 9 - Tom RobertsTom RobertsThomas William Roberts , usually known simply as Tom, was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.-Life:...
, painter (d. 19311931 in art-Events:*The Whitney Museum of American Art is founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.*October 4 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.-Works:*Max Beckmann - Paris Society...
) - March 20 - John LaveryJohn LaverySir John Lavery was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, in the 1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the Glasgow School...
, Irish painter (d.19411941 in art-Events:*Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine.-Works:*Max Beckmann - Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi*Peter Belov - "1941", *Paul Cadmus - Aviator...
) - May 20 - Henri-Edmond CrossHenri-Edmond CrossHenri-Edmond Cross was a French pointillist painter.- Life and career :Cross was born in Douai and grew up in Lille. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. His early works, portraits and still lifes, were in the dark colors of realism, but after meeting with Claude Monet in 1883, he painted in...
, painter (d. 19101910 in art-Events:*Robert Delaunay marries Sonia Terk.*Bronze sculptor Robert Kionsek joins the Berlin workshop of Ferdinand Preiss to form the PK firm; the two men combine their specialties to produce sculptures in bronze and ivory.-Exhibitions:...
) - October 28 - Anna Elizabeth KlumpkeAnna Elizabeth KlumpkeAnna Elizabeth Klumpke , was American portrait and genre painter born in San Francisco, California, United States....
, portrait and genre painter (d. 19421942 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Corporal Jim Gordon, VC-Works:*Rita Angus - Portrait *Pierre Bonnard - Red Roofs in Cannet*Paul-Émile Borduas - Abstraction No 7*Edward Hopper - Nighthawks...
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- January 4 - Pierre Jean DavidPierre Jean DavidPierre-Jean David , usually called David d'Angers, was a French sculptor.He was born at Angers. His father was a sculptor or a mason, but had gone into the army as a musketeer, fighting against the Chouans of La Vendée. He returned to his trade at the end of the civil war to find his customers...
, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (b. 17881788 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife*Francisco Goya - The Meadow of San Isidro*Francisco Goya - St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man-Births:...
) - April 27 - Louis Joseph César DucornetLouis Joseph César DucornetLouis Joseph César Ducornet was a French painter.Ducornet was born without arms; he painted using his foot...
, painter (used his feet) (b. 18061806 in art-Events:*The Elgin Marbles are brought to Britain from Greece by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.-Works:* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:*Napoleon on his Imperial Throne*Madame Rivière-Births:...
) - July 4 - István FerenczyIstván FerenczyIstván Ferenczy was a nineteenth century Hungarian sculptor.-Artistic education:Ferenczy was born in Rimaszombat...
, HungarianHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
sculptor (b. 17921792 in art-Events:*François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.-Births:*February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor *June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter...
) - July 19 - Henry Aston BarkerHenry Aston BarkerHenry Aston Barker was a Scottish landscape and panorama painter and exhibitor, the son of Robert Barker whose business he continued.-Life and works:...
, landscape and panorama painter (b. 17741774 in art-Births:* February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life * September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter * Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – French painter...
) - July 22 - Thomas DoughtyThomas Doughty (artist)Thomas Doughty was an American artist of the Hudson River School.Born in Philadelphia, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to landscape...
, landscape painter (b. 17931793 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat.* François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created a terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin .-Births:*January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer...
) - September 1 - Sir Richard WestmacottRichard WestmacottSir Richard Westmacott, Jr., RA was a British sculptor.-Life and career:He studied under his father, Richard Westmacott the Elder, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova...
, sculptor (b. 17751775 in art-Events:*Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.-Paintings:*John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill-Births:...
) - October - Rafael TejeoRafael TejeoRafael Tejeo was a Spanish painter during the Neoclassic period.Born in Caravaca and died in Madrid. Tejeo first studied in Murcia, then moved Madrid and entered studio of Jose Aparicio. Four years later, he traveled to Rome. He returned in 1827 . He was inducted into the Royal Academy of San...
, Spanish Neoclassical painter (b. c.1800) - October 8 - Théodore ChassériauThéodore ChassériauThéodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.-Life and work:...
, painter (b. 18191819 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.-Works:*Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight...
) - October 28 - Johann Peter KrafftJohann Peter KrafftJohann Peter Krafft was a German-Austrian painter.Krafft was born in Hanau, Hesse. At the age of ten, he began his art studies at the Hanau Akademie. In 1799, he moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts for three years under the tutelage of Heinrich Füger...
, German-Austrian painter (b. 17801780 in art-Births:*February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people *April 14 – Edward Hicks, folk artist *August 29 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter...
) - November 4 - Hippolyte DelarocheHippolyte DelarocheHippolyte Delaroche , commonly known as Paul Delaroche, was a French painter born in Paris. Delaroche was born into a wealthy family and was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, who then painted life-size histories and had many students.The first Delaroche picture exhibited was the large Josabeth...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
painter (b. 17971797 in art-Births:*June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter *July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter *August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter *September 19 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer...
) - November 6 - Cephas ThompsonCephas ThompsonCephas Thompson was a successful, self-taught, early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts....
, portrait painter (b. 17751775 in art-Events:*Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.-Paintings:*John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill-Births:...
) - November 21 - Charles de SteubenCharles de SteubenBaron Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben , also Charles de Steuben, was a French painter active during the Napoleonic Era.He briefly trained Gustave Courbet....
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
painter (b. 17881788 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife*Francisco Goya - The Meadow of San Isidro*Francisco Goya - St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man-Births:...
) - November 23 - Thomas SeddonThomas SeddonThomas Seddon , English landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite style, was born in London.His father was a cabinetmaker, and the son for some time followed the same occupation; but in 1842 he was sent to Paris to study ornamental art. On his return he executed designs for furniture for...
, landscape painter (b. 18211821 in art-Events:*At the age of eleven, Théodore Chassériau is accepted into the studio of Ingres.-Works:*Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain*John Constable – The Hay Wain-Births:* January 27 - August Becker, painter...
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- Kim JeonghuiKim JeonghuiKim Jeong-hui was a prominent Korean civil minister, Silhak scholar, and calligrapher. He invented his own style of calligraphy called, "chusache", based on ancient Korean monumental inscriptions.- Further reading:*...
, KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n calligrapherCalligraphyCalligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...
and artist (b. 17861786 in art-Births:*January 26 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer *April 1 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes *April 16 – Albrecht Adam, painter...
) - Elisabeth Charlotta KarstenElisabeth Charlotta KarstenElisabeth Charlotta Karsten, married surname Kachanoff, , was a Swedish painter.She was the daughter of Kristofer Kristian Karsten and Sophie Stebnowska and sister of Sophie Karsten. She was the student of Carl Johan Fahlcrantz. Karsten was a landscape painter and copied in oil from the work, among...
- Swedish and Russian painter (b. 17891789 in art-Events:*James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque".-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons...
) - Naitō ToyomasaNaito Toyomasawas a noted Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tamba Province. He was thus associated with the Tamba school. His works often depicts animals.-External links and references:**Naito Toyomasa, Parts I & II by Kazutoyo Ichimichi...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese sculptor of netsukeNetsukeNetsuke are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function...
from Tamba ProvinceTamba Provincewas an old province of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyōgo Prefecture. It was sometimes called , with Tango Province...
(b. 17731773 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.*Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts-Births:*December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist *date unknown...
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- Kim Jeonghui