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1839 in art
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Births
Deaths
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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
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
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 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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