1854 in art

Events from the year 1854 in art.

Events

 * 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



 * Athena Protects the Young Hero, Berlin
 * 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
 * Holman Hunt – The Light of the World
 * Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
 * John Everett Millais – John Ruskin
 * Jean-François Millet – The Reaper
 * Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Vienna Woods Landscape
 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)