1835 in art

Events from the year 1835 in art.

Events

• May 4 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 opens at Somerset House in London. ^[1]
• June 6 – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is received into the Roman Catholic Church. ^[2]
• June – Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first stroke, which restricts his ability to paint in oils. ^[3]
• August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England. ^[4]
• Victor Cousin introduces the expression "L'art pour l'art" ("Art for art's sake").
• Marie Tussaud establishes the first permanent Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.
• Salon of 1835 in Paris.

Publications

• George Field – Chromatography; or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting. ^[5]

Works

Christen Købke – One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle

• Théodore Chassériau
  • Aline Chassériau
  • Self-portrait
• William Collins – Barmouth Sands
• Léon Cogniet – The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte (ceiling at Musée du Louvre, Paris)
• John Constable – The Valley Farm
• Edward William Cooke – Hay Barge off Greenwich
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Venise, La Piazetta
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Giant Mountains
  • The Stages of Life
• Christen Købke
  • Frederiksborg Palace in the Evening Light
  • One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle
• Daniel Maclise – The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock
• James Arthur O'Connor – The Poachers
• John Orlando Parry – The Poster Man
• Ary Scheffer – Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (original version)
• J. M. W. Turner
  • The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834
  • Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
  • Line Fishing, Off Hastings
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Wolfgangsee
• Horace Vernet – Napoleon at the Battle of Friedland

Births

• January 3 – Fanny Cornforth, born Sarah Cox, English artists' model (died 1909) ^[6]
• March 31 – John La Farge, American painter and stained-glass artist (died 1910)
• May 11 – Stefano Bruzzi, Italian painter (died 1911)
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (died 1868)
• June 23 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born artists' model (died 1924)
• July 2 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (died 1921)
• December 9 – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (died 1917)
• date unknown – Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter especially of oriental themes (died 1884)

Deaths

• February 13 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor (born 1792)
• March 20 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (born 1794)
• April 1 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (born 1771)
• April 4 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (born 1778)
• April 5 – Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher (born 1754)
• May 1 – Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (born 1768) ^[7]
• May 15 – Pauline Auzou, French painter (born 1775)
• June 21 – Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (born 1762)
• June 25 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (born 1771)
• August 20 – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (born 1758)
• October 23 – Thomas Heaphy, English watercolour and portrait painter (born 1775)
• November 3 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (born 1764)
• November 17 – Carle Vernet, French painter (born 1758)
• December 1 – Charles Hayter, English painter (born 1761)
• December 2 – James Fittler, English engraver (born 1758)

References

1. "1835 A Collector Makes His Rounds". 1835 A Collector Makes His Rounds. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
2. "Parliament's Pugin Plaque in Salisbury". Clifton Diocese. July 2007. Archived from the original on July 24, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
3. Schmied, Wieland (1995). Caspar David Friedrich . New York: H.N. Abrams. p.  44. ISBN   0-8109-3327-6.
4. Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. pp. 127–8. ISBN   0-7181-1279-2.
5. George Field (1841). Chromatography; Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments: And of Their Powers in Painting. Tilt and Bogue.
6. Whittick, Christopher (September 23, 2004). "Cornforth [other married names Hughes, Schott], Fanny [née Sarah Cox] (1835–1909), artists' model and intimate companion of Dante Gabriel Rossetti" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58350.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
7. Connecticut Historical Society (1984). Bulletin - Connecticut Historical Society. Connecticut Historical Society. p. 92.