1857 in art

The following is a list of events from 1857 in art.

Events

 * June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London.
 * Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art.
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends begin painting the Oxford Union murals; Jane Burden first models for them.

Exhibitions

 * May 5–October 17 – The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time. Photographs are admitted.

Works

 * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
 * Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
 * The Destruction of Sodom
 * Gustave Courbet – Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable
 * Thomas Couture
 * The Supper after the Masked Ball
 * The Duel after the Masked Ball
 * Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Duel After the Masquerade (Suite d'un bal masqué) (original version)
 * Hiroshige – Prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo including Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake
 * Robert Howlett – Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (photograph)
 * Arthur Hughes – The Mother's Grave
 * Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov – The Appearance of Christ Before the People (begun 1837)
 * Rudolf Koller – Cow in a Vegetable Garden (Die Kuh im Krautgarten)
 * Benjamin Williams Leader – A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch
 * John Frederick Lewis – The Coffee Bearer
 * Octave Penguilly L'Haridon – Combat of the Thirty
 * Daniel Maclise – Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard
 * John Everett Millais – A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford
 * Jean-François Millet (both Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * The Angelus (original version)
 * The Gleaners
 * Philip Richard Morris – The Good Samaritan
 * Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless
 * O. G. Rejlander – The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage)
 * Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel – Goethe–Schiller Monument
 * Raden Saleh – The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro
 * Jozef Van Lerius – Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh
 * Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Corpus Christi Morning
 * Henry Wallis – The Stonebreaker
 * August Wredow – Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus (sculpture, Berlin)

Births

 * February 12 – Eugène Atget, French photographer (died 1927)
 * May 17 – Mary Devens, American pictorial photographer (died 1920)
 * July 30 – Lucy Bacon, American Impressionist painter (died 1932)
 * July 31 – Adolphe Willette, French illustrator (died 1926)
 * September 10 – Adolphe Demange, French portrait painter (died 1927)
 * September 22 – Étienne Terrus, French painter (died 1922)
 * October 23 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (died 1899)
 * November 18 – Stanhope Forbes, British painter of the Newlyn school (died 1947)
 * November 21 – Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter (died 1929)
 * December 7 – Uroš Predić, one of the top three Serbian Realist painters, along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić (died 1953)
 * December 8 – Anna Bilińska, Polish painter (died 1893)
 * December 22 – W. W. Quatremain, English landscape painter (died 1930)
 * December 23 – Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (died 1943)
 * date unknown – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (died 1944)

Deaths

 * January 30 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (born 1777)
 * March 18 – Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (born c.1775)
 * May 1 – Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (born 1813)
 * May 16 – Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (born 1776)
 * June 11 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (born 1779)
 * October 10 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (born 1814)
 * October 14 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (born 1788)
 * October 27 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (born 1797)
 * November 14 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (born 1797)
 * December 3 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (born 1777)
 * December 16 – William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (born 1782)
 * December 23 – Achille Devéria, French portrait painter and lithographer (born 1800)
 * date unknown
 * Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (born 1819)
 * Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (born 1790)