1858 in art

Events from the year 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.^[1]
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.^[2]
English-born photographer Robert Jefferson Bingham creates the first photographic catalogue raisonné, depicting the works of French painter Paul Delaroche (d. 1856) (Oeuvre de Paul Delaroche, reproduit en photographie par Bingham, accompagné d'une notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Paul Delaroche), published by Goupil & Cie in Paris.^[3] Goupil also begins publication of mass editions of photographic reproductions of popular paintings.^[4]
Edward Lear visits the Holy Land.

Misfortune from Augustus Egg's Past and Present

January 6 – Albert Henry Munsell, American painter, teacher of art and inventor of the Munsell color system (died 1918)
January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German photographer and illustrator (died 1929)
March 13 – Maximilien Luce, French Neo-Impressionist painter (died 1941)
May 14 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (died 1892)
June 16 – John Russell, Australian Impressionist painter (died 1930)
June 21 – Medardo Rosso, Italian Post-Impressionist sculptor (died 1928)
September 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Belgian Symbolist painter (died 1921)
November 2 – Niels Skovgaard, Danish sculptor and painter (died 1938)
November 12 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-born painter (died 1884)
November 30 – Rosa Mayreder, Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist (died 1938)

Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada

January 10 – Hezekiah Augur, American sculptor and inventor (born 1791)
January 31 – Václav Mánes, Czech painter (born 1793)
April 9 – Joseph Stieler, German painter (born 1781)
May 18 – Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm, Swedish diplomat who made paintings of the countries in which he served (born 1790)
June 15 – Ary Scheffer, painter (born 1795)
July 15 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (born 1806)
October 12 – Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1797)
October 16 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside (born 1779)
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- Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver (born 1779)
- John Hogan, sculptor (born 1800)