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Events from the year 1840 in art.

Events

March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their "Daguerreian Parlor" on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's first commercial photography portrait studio.
May 1 – Issue in the United Kingdom of the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, depicting the head of Queen Victoria engraved by Charles Heath and his son Frederick based on a sketch provided by Henry Corbould itself based on a cameo portrait by William Wyon,^[1]^[2] together with Mulready stationery. The stamp becomes valid for postage from May 6.^[3]
September 30 – Foundation of Nelson's Column laid in London,^[4] Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.^[5]

March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.

John Johnson (inventor) photographer and inventor

John Johnson was an instrument maker of dental supplies. He was a nineteenth-century pioneer photographer and an inventor. He made with Alexander S. Wolcott the world's first commercial portrait studio.

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi (21 km) through the borough of Manhattan and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 18 mi (29 km) through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

Works

Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc – July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris; incorporating Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté and bas-reliefs by Antoine-Louis Barye and others
Thomas Jones Barker – The Bride of Death
François Bouchot – Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud
Théodore Chassériau
- Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids
- Diana Surprised by Actaeon
- Portrait of the Reverend Father Dominique Lacordaire, of the Order of the Predicant Friars
Francis Danby – The Deluge
Eugène Delacroix (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
- Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
- The Shipwreck of Don Juan
The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople or The Crusaders Entering Constantinople is a large painting by Eugène Delacroix. It was commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1838, and completed in 1840. Painted in oil on canvas, it is in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
William Etty – The Wrestlers (approximate date)
Horatio Greenough – George Washington (statue, Washington, D.C.)
Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury (Chatsworth House, England)
Robert Scott Lauder – David Roberts Esq. in the dress he wore in Palestine
John Martin – The Eve of the Deluge (British Royal Collection) and The Assuaging of the Waters (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
John Christian Schetky – Loss of the Royal George
Armand Toussaint – Persephone (sculpture) (approx. date)
J. M. W. Turner – The Slave Ship, or Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Jean-Antoine Alavoine was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–1840), the July Column to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has a capital freely based on the Corinthian order, with exaggerated corner volutes flanking putti holding swags, a complicated and somewhat incoherent design that found no imitators.

Joseph-Louis Duc was a French architect. Duc came to prominence early, with his very well received work at the July Column in Paris, and spent much of the rest of his career on a single building complex, the Palais de Justice.

The July Column is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the "three glorious" days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of King Charles X of France and the commencement of the "July Monarchy" of Louis-Philippe, King of the French. It was built between 1835 and 1840.

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
Grand Prix de Rome, music: F.E.V. Bazin.

Théodore Ballu was a French architect who designed numerous public buildings in Paris. He is the father of the politician Roger Ballu and the grandfather of the industrialist and politician Guillaume Ballu.

Births

April 22 – Odilon Redon, French painter and graphic artist (died 1916)
April 28 – Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (died 1913)
May 2 – Philippe Solari, Provençal sculptor (died 1906)
May 28 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (died 1884)
July 8 – Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (died 1925)
August 14 – Briton Rivière, English painter (died 1920)
September 27 – Thomas Nast, German American cartoonist (died 1902)
November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (died 1917)
November 14 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (died 1926)
date unknown – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, Swedish sculptor (died 1920)
probable – Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Irish American photographer of the American Civil War (died 1882)

April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of the year.

Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.

The French are an ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France. This connection may be ethnic, legal, historical, or cultural.

Deaths

January 16 – František Tkadlík, Czech painter (born 1786)
February 9 – Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (born 1781)
February 27 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (born 1794)
March 19 – Thomas Daniell, landscape painter (born 1749)
March 30 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (born 1778)
April 10 – Alexander Nasmyth, painter (born 1758)
May 5 – Robert Trewick Bone English painter of sacred, classical and genre scenes (born 1790)
May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, painter (born 1774)
May 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (born 1772)
June 20 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter (born 1759)
July 6 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (born 1763)
July 23 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (born 1798)
August 30 - Jonas Damelis, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (born 1780)
October 28 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, and landscape painter (born 1778)
November 7 – Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (born 1760)
December 11 – Franz Bauer, Austrian microscopist and botanical artist (born 1758)
date unknown
- Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (born 1782)
- William Heath, English satirical engraver (born 1794)
- Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (born 1773)

References

↑ Hill, H. W. (1940). The Fight for the Penny Post. London: Warne. pp. 75–79.
↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 10.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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[1] Hill, H. W. (1940). The Fight for the Penny Post. London: Warne. pp. 75–79.

[2] "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-13.

[3] Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 10.

[Pocket_On_This_Day-4] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.

[CBH-5] Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.