Events from the year 1856 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
- January 7 â Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (died 1933)
- January 8 â Elizabeth Taylor, American painter (died 1932)
- January 12 â John Singer Sargent, Florentine-born American portrait painter (died 1925)
- February 29 - John Ward Dunsmore, American painter (died 1945)
- March 8 â Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist painter (died 1937)
- March 9 â Tom Roberts, Australian painter (died 1931)
- March 11 â Georges Petit, French art dealer (died 1920)
- May 20 â Henri-Edmond Cross, French neo-impressionist painter (died 1910)
- October 9 - F. W. Pomeroy, English sculptor (died 1924)
- October 28
- Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Swedish sculptor (died 1935)
- Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, American portrait and genre painter (died 1942)
- November 6 â Jefferson David Chalfant, American trompe-l'Ã
Âil painter (died 1931)
- November 11 - Alfred Drury, English sculptor (died 1944)
- November 18 â Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (died 1933)
- November 21 â Eveleen Tennant, English portrait photographer (died 1937)
- Undated â Harry Fidler, English equine painter (died 1935)
Deaths
- January 4 â David d'Angers (Pierre-Jean David), French sculptor and engraver (born 1788)
- April 5 â FrantiÃ
¡ek HorÃÂiÃÂka, Czech history and portrait painter (born 1776)
- April 27 â Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (born 1806)
- July 4 â István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (born 1792)
- July 19 â Henry Aston Barker, Scottish landscape and panorama painter (born 1774)
- July 22 â Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (born 1793)
- September 1 â Sir Richard Westmacott, English sculptor (born 1775)
- October â Rafael Tegeo, Spanish Neoclassical painter (born 1798)
- October 8 â Théodore Chassériau, French Romantic painter (born 1819)
- October 10 â Gim Jeong-hui, Korean calligrapher and artist (born 1786)
- October 25 â NaitÃ
 Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province (born 1773)
- October 28 â Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (born 1780)
- November 4 â Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (born 1797)
- November 6 â Cephas Thompson, American portrait painter (born 1775)
- November 13 â Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (born 1770)
- November 21 â Charles de Steuben, French painter (born 1788)
- November 23 â Thomas Seddon, English landscape painter (born 1821)
- date unknown
- Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (born 1796)
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (born 1770)
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish and Russian painter (born 1789)
- Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman (born 1782)
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