1854 in art
Events from the year 1854 in art.
Events
- 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.
- 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 Wheat Sifters
- David Cox – Rhyl Sands
- William Powell Frith – Ramsgate Sands
- Nicolas Gosse – Napoleon III Visiting the Construction Site of the Louvre
- Holman Hunt – The Light of the World
- John William Inchbold – The Moorland
- Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
- John Everett Millais – John Ruskin
- Jean-François Millet – The Reaper
- John Phillip
- * El Paseo
- * The Letter Writer of Seville
- Clarkson Stanfield – View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees
- 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
- January 23 – Hans Brandstetter, Austrian sculptor
- February 10 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter
- March 25 – Alexander Reid, Scottish art dealer
- April 19 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter
- May 21 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter
- June 24 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter
- July 21 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter
- August 6 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author
- August 12 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor
- December 10 – Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter
- Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter
- Egisto Massoni, Italian painter
Deaths
- February 17 – John Martin, English painter and engraver
- March 13 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems
- May 10 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver
- July 30 – Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver
- August 29 – William Brockedon, English painter and inventor
- September 20 – Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect
- September 23 – Edward Wedlake Brayley, English antiquary and topographer
- September 29 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter
- November 24 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter
- December 22 – Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor