1854 in art

Overview of the events of 1854 in art

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Events from the year 1854 in art.

## Events

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* May 1 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1854 opens at the National Gallery in London
* July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled.[1]
* November 27 – André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patents a method of producing carte de visite photographs in France.

## Works

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– La rencontre by Gustave Courbet The Letter Writer of Seville by John Phillip

See also: Category:1854 sculptures

* 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
* John Phillip – The Letter Writer of Seville
* 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

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* 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

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* 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)

## References

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1. ^ James, William, ed. (1947). The Order of Release: the story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais told for the first time in their unpublished letters. London: John Murray. p. 237.

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