1858 in art

Events

• January 3 – English writer and art critic John Ruskin meets 10-year-old Rose La Touche, a drawing pupil who becomes his muse, for the first time, at her family's London home.
• May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1858 opens at the National Gallery in London
• May 13 – John Ruskin begins a tour of Europe which he considers a significant turning point in his life.
• English-born photographer Robert Jefferson Bingham creates the first photographic catalogue raisonné, depicting the works of French painter Paul Delaroche, published by Goupil & Cie in Paris. Goupil also begins publication of mass editions of photographic reproductions of popular paintings.
• Edward Lear visits the Holy Land.

Awards

• Prix de Rome – Jean-Jacques Henner

Works

• Ivan Aivazovsky – The Battle of Bomarsund
• Edward Armitage – Retribution
• Jerry Barrett – The Mission of Mercy: Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari
• Emma Brownlow – The Foundling Restored to its Mother
• Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Ave Maria
• 'Lewis Carroll' – Alice Liddell as a beggar child
• Augustus Egg – Past and Present
• William Henry Fisk – The Secret
• William Powell Frith
• * The Derby Day
• * The Crossing Sweeper
• * The Signal
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Self-Portrait at the Age of 78
• Christian Albrecht Jensen – Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach
• Édouard Manet – The Boy with Cherries
• William Morris – La belle Iseult
• Elisabet Ney – Jacob Grimm
• John Phillip – The Dying Contrabandista
• Henry Nelson O'Neil – Eastward Ho!
• John Quidor – The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane
• David Roberts
• * Edinburgh from the Calton Hill
• * The interior of the Collegiate Church of St Paul at Antwerp
• Rebecca Solomon – Behind the Curtain
• Edward Washburn – The Arkansas Traveller
• Albert Wolff – ''Löwenkämpfer''

Births

• January 6 – Albert Henry Munsell, American painter, teacher of art and inventor of the Munsell color system
• January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German photographer and illustrator
• March 13 – Maximilien Luce, French Neo-Impressionist painter
• May 14 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter
• June 16 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter
• June 21 – Medardo Rosso, Italian Post-Impressionist sculptor
• September 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Belgian Symbolist painter
• November 2 – Niels Skovgaard, Danish sculptor and painter
• November 12 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-born painter
• November 30 – Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist

Deaths

• January 10 – Hezekiah Augur, American sculptor and inventor
• January 31 – Václav Mánes, Czech painter
• April 9 – Joseph Stieler, German painter
• May 18 – Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm, Swedish diplomat who made paintings of the countries in which he served
• June 15 – Ary Scheffer, painter
• July 15 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism
• October 12 – Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist
• October 16 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside date unknown
• * Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver
• * John Hogan, sculptor