Editing 1858 in art (section)

==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.<ref>{{cite web|first=Robert|last=Hewison|authorlink=Robert Hewison|title=Ruskin, John (1819–1900)|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24291|accessdate=2014-03-19|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24291}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – [[John Ruskin]] begins a tour of [[Europe]] which he considers a significant turning point in his life.<ref>{{cite book|first=John|last=Ruskin|title=Letters From The Continent, 1858|url=https://archive.org/details/lettersfromconti0000rusk|url-access=registration|editor=Hayman, John|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1982|isbn=0-8020-5583-4}}</ref>
* English-born photographer [[Robert Jefferson Bingham]] creates the first photographic ''[[catalogue raisonné]]'', depicting the works of French painter [[Paul Delaroche]] (d. [[1856 in art|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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hannavy|first1=John|title=Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography|date=2013|location=London|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135873271|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA549 }}</ref> Goupil also begins publication of mass editions of photographic reproductions of popular paintings.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Orlando Figes|first=Orlando|last=Figes|title=The Europeans|location=[London]|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2019|isbn=978-0-241-00489-0|page=203}}</ref>
* [[Edward Lear]] visits the [[Holy Land]].