The following is a list of events from 1857 in art. Events June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is opened by Queen Victoria in London. Lewis Carroll meets John Ruskin and begins to associate with the Pre-Raphaelites. In the same year, Ruskin publishes his Political Economy of Art. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite friends begin painting the Oxford Union murals; Jane Burden first models for them. Exhibitions May 5–October 17 – The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition is held in Manchester, one of the largest such displays of all time. Photographs are admitted. Works Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Le concert champêtre (Musée Condé, Chantilly) The Destruction of Sodom Gustave Courbet – Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable Thomas Couture The Supper after the Masked Ball The Duel after the Masked Ball Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Duel After the Masquerade (Suite d'un bal masqué) (original version) Hiroshige – Prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo including Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake Robert Howlett – Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (photograph) Arthur Hughes – The Mother's Grave Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov – The Appearance of Christ Before the People (begun 1837) Rudolf Koller – Cow in a Vegetable Garden (Die Kuh im Krautgarten) Benjamin Williams Leader – A Quiet Pool in Glenfalloch John Frederick Lewis – The Coffee Bearer Octave Penguilly L'Haridon – Combat of the Thirty Daniel Maclise – Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard John Everett Millais – A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford Jean-François Millet (both Musée d'Orsay, Paris) The Angelus (original version) The Gleaners Philip Richard Morris – The Good Samaritan Henry Nelson O'Neil – Eastward Ho! Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless O. G. Rejlander – The Two Ways of Life (allegorical photomontage) Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel – Goethe–Schiller Monument Raden Saleh – The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro Jozef Van Lerius – Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Corpus Christi Morning Henry Wallis – The Stonebreaker August Wredow – Iris Takes the Fallen Hero to Olympus (sculpture, Berlin) 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