1857 in art

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 – UroÅ¡ 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)

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