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1841 in art
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Works
Births
Deaths
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Overview of the events of 1841 in art
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Events from the year
1841 in art
.
Events
May 3
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841
opens in
London
June 1
– Scottish painter and engraver
Sir David Wilkie
, returning to Britain from a voyage to the East, dies on board a ship out of
Gibraltar
and is buried at sea in the
Bay of Gibraltar
, an event commemorated in
J. M. W. Turner
's painting
Peace - Burial at Sea
(
1842
).
Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square
, London erected to the design of
Charles Barry
. The planned equestrian statue of
King William IV
being abandoned due to lack of funds, the
plinth
remains empty until
1999
.
George Hayter
appointed
Principal Painter in Ordinary
to
Queen Victoria
.
American
artist
John G. Rand
invents the collapsible
zinc
oil paint
tube
, marketed by
Winsor & Newton
of
London
.
[
1
]
Salon of 1841
in Paris
Publications
Edward Lear
–
Views in Rome and its Environs
(
lithographs
).
[
2
]
John Ruskin
–
The King of the Golden River
, with illustrations by
Richard Doyle
.
Works
Eckersberg
–
A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror
A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert
by
Edwin Landseer
Amazone zu Pferde
(Kiss)
, Berlin
Thomas Birch
–
An American Ship in Distress
Théodore Chassériau
–
The Toilette of Esther
or
Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus
Thomas Cole
–
The Fountain of Vaucluse
Auguste Couder
–
Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt
Hippolyte Delaroche
–
Hémicycle
in
École des Beaux-Arts
, Paris.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
–
A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror
William Etty
–
Female Bathers Surprised by a Swan
Richard Evans
–
Portrait of George Bradshaw
Benjamin Robert Haydon
–
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
Francesco Hayez
–
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni
Edwin Landseer
–
A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert
Emanuel Leutze
–
Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca
John Martin
The Celestial City and the River of Bliss
Pandemonium
David Roberts
The Fountain on the Prado, Madrid
The Temple of Dendera
William Salter
–
The Waterloo Banquet
Clarkson Stanfield
–
The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy
J.M. W. Turner
–
Schloss Rosenau
Edward Matthew Ward
–
Napoleon in the Prison of Nice in 1794
Antoine Wiertz
–
La Chute des Anges rebelles
David Wilkie
–
Portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
–
Portrait of Louis Philippe I
Births
January 14
–
Berthe Morisot
, Impressionist painter (died
1895
)
February 4
–
Charles Édouard Delort
, French academic painter (died
1895
)
February 16
–
Armand Guillaumin
, Impressionist painter (died
1927
)
February 25
–
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
, Impressionist painter (died
1919
)
September 4
–
Albert Joseph Moore
, painter (died
1893
)
December 6
–
Frédéric Bazille
, Impressionist painter (died
1870
)
Deaths
January 7
–
James Arthur O'Connor
, Irish landscape painter (born
1792
)
January 12
–
Alexander Day
, English miniature painter and art dealer (born
1772
)
February 14
–
Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin
, French chemist, medallist, politician, and man of letters (born
1757
)
April 10
–
Henri Van Assche
, Belgian painter (born
1774
)
[
3
]
June 1
–
David Wilkie
, Scottish painter (born
1785
)
July 27
(O.S. July 15) –
Mikhail Lermontov
, Russian poet and painter (born
1814
) (in a
duel
)
August 15
–
Elizabeth Gould
, illustrator (born
1804
)
September 2
–
Francesco Rosaspina
, Italian engraver (born
1762
)
[
4
]
October 9
–
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
, architect and painter (born
1781
)
November 11
–
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy
, French painter known for his landscapes (born
1757
)
[
5
]
November 17
–
Cladius Detlev Fritzsch
, also known as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter (born
1765
)
November 23
–
Watanabe Kazan
, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (born
1793
)
November 25
– Sir
Francis Legatt Chantrey
, sculptor (born
1781
)
date unknown
–
Gustaf Erik Hedman
, Finnish painter (born
1777
)
probable
–
José Gil de Castro
, Afro-Peruvian painter especially of portraits of Peru's heroes (born
1785
)
References
↑
"Painting Inventions"
.
Humanities Web
. January 6, 2001
. Retrieved
August 7,
2011
.
↑
Vidya Dehejia; Edward Lear; Allen Staley (1989).
Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875
. Columbia University Press. p.
109.
ISBN
978-0-231-06955-7
.
↑
"Henri Van Assche"
.
Netherlands Institute for Art History
. Retrieved
April 30,
2020
.
↑
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
(2006).
"Rosaspina, Francesco"
[
permanent dead link
]
. Retrieved via Oxford Index 9 July 2017 (subscription required for full access).
↑
Andreas Andresen (1870).
Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der Kupferstecher, Maler-Radirer und Formschneider aller Länder und Schulen nach Massgabe ihrer geschätztesten Blätter und Werke
. T. O. Weigel. pp.
407
.
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