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| 1855 |
| | | Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics | |
|  | Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat (detail)
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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| 1855 |
| | | John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News includes chromolithographs, introducing the era of colour journalism | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Hector Berlioz completes his 4-hour opera The Trojans (not performed as a complete work until 1890) | |
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| 1859 |
| | | The opera Faust, by French composer Charles Gounod, has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1859 |
| | | US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1861 |
| | | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1863 |
| | | 48-year-old Julia Margaret Cameron is given a camera by her daughter, in the Isle of Wight, and decides to concentrate on portraits | |
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