1854 in art
Events
    
- July 15 – The marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray is annulled.[1]
 - 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 Meeting" or "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
 - The Wheat Sifters
 
 - David Cox – Rhyl Sands
 - William Powell Frith – Ramsgate Sands
 - Holman Hunt – The Light of the World
 - Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Aoife and Strongbow
 - John Everett Millais – John Ruskin
 - Jean-François Millet – The Reaper
 - 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 (died 1913)
 - January 23 – Hans Brandstetter, Austrian sculptor (died 1925)
 - February 10 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (died 1894)
 - April 19 – Charles Angrand, French neo-Impressionist painter (died 1926)
 - May 21 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter (died 1907)
 - June 24 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (died 1923)
 - July 21 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (died 1905)
 - August 6 – W. G. Collingwood, English painter and author (died 1932)
 - August 12 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (died 1934)
 - December 10 – Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter (died 1931)
 - Antonio Fabrés, Catalan painter (died 1938)
 - Egisto Massoni, Italian painter (died 1929)
 
Deaths
    
- February 17 – John Martin, English painter and engraver (on the Isle of Man) (born 1789)
 - March 13 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (born 1773)
 - May 10 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1770)
 - July 30 – Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (born 1788)
 - August 29 – William Brockedon, English painter and inventor (born 1787)
 - September 20 – Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect (born 1799)
 - September 23 – Edward Wedlake Brayley, English antiquary and topographer (born 1773)
 - September 29 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (born 1783)
 - November 24 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (born 1794)
 - December 22 – Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1786)
 
References
    
- James, William, ed. (1947). The Order of Release: the story of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais told for the first time in their unpublished letters. London: John Murray. p. 237.
 
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