1856 in art
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Events

• (unknown)

Awards

• Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture - Joseph Boehm

Works

• 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 12 - John Singer Sargent, painter (d. 1925)
• 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)
• Franz Ittenbach, religious painter (d. 1879)

Deaths

• January 4 - Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (b. 1788)
• April 27 - Louis Joseph César Ducornet, painter (used his feet) (b. 1806)
• October 8 - Théodore Chassériau, painter (b. 1819)
• November 6 - Cephas Thompson, portrait painter (b. 1775)
• November 23 - Thomas Seddon, landscape painter (b. 1821)
• Thomas Doughty, landscape painter (b. 1793)
• Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor (b. 1775)
• Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
• Naitō Toyomasa - Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tamba Province (b. 1773)
• István Ferenczy - Hungarian sculptor (b. 1792)
• Kim Jeonghui - Korean calligrapher and artist (b. 1786)
• Charles de Steuben - French painter active during the Napoleonic Era (b. 1788)