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1839 in art
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Events
Works
Births
Deaths
References
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Events from the year
1839 in art
.
Events
January 9
– The
French Academy of Sciences
announces the
Daguerreotype
photography
process.
January 25
–
H. Fox Talbot
shows his "photogenic drawings" at the
Royal Institution
in London.
May 6
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1839
opens at the
National Gallery
in London
c. October –
Robert Cornelius
takes a
daguerreotype
self-portrait
, the earliest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America.
Honoré de Balzac
's novel
Pierre Grassou
concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.
[
1
]
Works
Hayter
–
The Coronation of Queen Victoria
.
Turner
–
The Fighting Temeraire
View of Dresden by Moonlight
by
Johan Christian Dahl
Jean Alaux
–
The Battle of Denain
John Bell
–
Babes in the Wood
(sculpture)
Sara Anne Bright –
The Leaf
(photogenic drawing)
[
2
]
Johan Christian Dahl
–
View of Dresden by Moonlight
Francis Grant
–
A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey
Francesco Hayez
–
Reclining Odalisque
George Hayter
–
The Coronation of Queen Victoria
Johann Peter Krafft
–
The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig
Jean-Charles Langlois
–
The Battle of Smolensk
Edwin Landseer
–
Dignity and Impudence
Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals
Charles Robert Leslie
–
Dulcinea del Toboso
Daniel Maclise
Portrait of Charles Dickens
Robin Hood and His Merry Men Entertaining Richard the Lionheart in Sherwood Forest
William Mulready
Fair Time
The Sonnet
Thomas Phillips
Portrait of the Earl of Egremont
Portrait of Thomas Arnold
Carl Spitzweg
–
The Poor Poet
J. M. W. Turner
Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino
Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum
The Fighting Temeraire
tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838
Peter von Hess
–
The Entry of King Otto of Greece into Athens
David Wilkie
–
Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tipoo Sahib
William Wyon
–
Una and the Lion
(design for
five pounds British gold coin
)
Births
January 19
–
Paul Cézanne
, French painter (died
1906
)
[
3
]
March 16
–
John Butler Yeats
, Irish painter (died
1922
)
May 24
–
Arthur Quartley
, painter (died
1886
)
June 9
–
Joseph Paelinck
, Belgian painter (born
1781
)
September 1
–
Charles Edward Perugini
, English painter (died
1918
)
October 2
–
Hans Thoma
, German painter (died
1924
)
October 29
–
Kate Dickens Perugini
, English painter (died
1929
)
October 30
–
Alfred Sisley
, French impressionist painter (died
1899
)
November 16
–
William De Morgan
, English
ceramic artist
(died
1917
)
November 20
–
Christian Wilberg
, painter (died
1882
)
date unknown
–
François Sallé
, French
realist
painter (died
1899
)
Deaths
January 12
–
Joseph Anton Koch
, Austrian
painter
of the
German Romantic
movement (born
1768
)
January 14
–
John Wesley Jarvis
, American painter (born
1781
)
January 28
– Sir
William Beechey
, English portrait painter (born
1753
)
February 6
–
François Louis Thomas Francia
, French shorescape watercolorist (born
1772
)
February 8
–
Giovanni Cendramini
, Italian painter and engraver (born
1760
)
February 21
–
John Charles Felix Rossi
, English sculptor (born
1769
)
June 2
–
Wijnand Nuijen
, Dutch land- and seascape painter (born
1813
)
June 4
–
Cornelia Scheffer
, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist (born
1769
)
July 8
–
John Laporte
, English landscape painter and etcher (born
1761
)
September 4
–
Hendrik Voogd
, Dutch painter and printmaker active in Italy (born
1768
)
September 10
–
Pieter Fontijn
, Dutch painter and drawer (born
1773
)
September 30
–
John Thirtle
, English watercolour painter and frame-maker (born
1777
)
November 15
–
Giocondo Albertolli
, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born
1743
)
December –
William Sadler
, Irish landscape painter (born
1782
)
[
4
]
December 22
–
Cornelis van Spaendonck
, Dutch painter (born
1756
)
date unknown
–
Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini
, Italian portrait and caricature painter (born
1757
)
References
↑
Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
(2008).
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
. Princeton University Press. p.
88.
ISBN
0691127263
.
↑
Clark, Nick (2015-07-06). "The leaf storm".
i
. No.
1438. London. p.
27.
↑
"Paul Cézanne | French artist | Britannica"
.
www.britannica.com
. Retrieved
14 May
2023
.
↑
John Hutchinson; James Arthur O'Connor (1985).
James Arthur O'Connor
. National Gallery of Ireland. p.
44
.
ISBN
978-0-903162-28-9
.
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