1843 in art

Events from the year 1843 in art.

Events

• 8 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London. ^[1]
• August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
• The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.

Publications

• Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable ^[2]
• John Ruskin – Modern Painters

Works

Souvenirs of Antwerp by Gustaf Wappers

• Berlin Peace Column
• Madison Square Fountain , New York City
• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett ^[3]
• Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
• Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait)
• Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
• William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version)
• Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection")
• George Hayter – The House of Commons, 1833 ^[4]
• Eugène Lami – The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu ^[5]
• Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
• David Roberts – The Gate of Metawaley ^[6]
• Hendrik Scheffer – Entry of Joan of Arc into Liberated Orleans
  • J. M. W. Turner
  • Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
  • St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina ^[7]
  • The Opening of the Wallhalla ^[8]
  • The Sun of Venice Going to Sea ^[9]
• Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
• Horace Vernet – Arabs Travelling in the Desert ^[10]
• Gustaf Wappers – Souvenirs of Antwerp ^[11]
• Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims ^[12]
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
  • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

Births

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
• March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
• April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942)
• April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
• June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
• July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
• September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
• September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
• November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
• date unknown
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)
  • Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)

Deaths

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776) ^[13]
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762) ^[14]
• Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
• March 19 – Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)
• April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786)
• July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779) ^[15]
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769) ^[16]
• July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787) ^[17]
• October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
• November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756)
• November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
  • Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)

References

1. "1843 The Royal Academy and the Westminster Cartoon Exhibition". Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: Chronicle. Retrieved January 5, 2026.
2. Luke Herrmann (2000). Nineteenth Century British Painting. Charles de la Mare. p. 291.
3. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-francis-burdett-5th-bt-157935
4. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00015/The-House-of-Commons-1833
5. https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE012274
6. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72560/the-gate-of-metawalea-oil-painting-roberts-david-ra/
7. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-st-benedetto-looking-towards-fusina-n00534
8. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-opening-of-the-wallhalla-1842-n00533
9. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-sun-of-venice-going-to-sea-n00535
10. https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65518&viewType=detailView
11. https://www.rct.uk/collection/406303/souvenir-danvers
12. https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/embarkation-pilgrims
13. Oxford University Press (June 21, 2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 249. ISBN   978-0-19-992305-2.
14. "Obit. William Sawrey Gilpin". Annual Register, 1843. Vol. 85. London: F. & J. Rivington. 1844. p. 248.
15. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1882. p. 41.
16. J. David Archibald (December 15, 2018). Charles Darwin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-5381-1164-2.
17. The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Biography. 6v. and Suppl. Bradbury, Evans. 1872. p. 415.