1849 in art

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Events from the year 1849 in art.

Events

• March – The Journal of Design and Manufactures is established by Henry Cole in London.
• May
  • First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in London: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Institution for the Free Exhibition of Modern Art's "St. George's Gallery" on Knightsbridge next to Hyde Park Corner.
  • John Ruskin publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture .

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) – Gustave Boulanger

Works

Isabella (Millais)

See also: Category:1849 sculptures

• Ivan Aivazovsky – Stormy Sea at Night
• Rosa Bonheur – Ploughing in the Nivernais
• Auguste Couder – The Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1789
• Gustave Courbet – After Dinner at Ornans
• Asher Brown Durand – Kindred Spirits
• William Holman Hunt – Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions
• John Everett Millais – Isabella
• Andreas Müller – The Christ Child
• John O'Connor – Diorama of the Queen's Visit to Ireland
• Joseph Noel Paton – The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
• Clarkson Frederick Stanfield – Tilbury Fort – Wind Against Tide

Births

• January 12 – Jean Béraud, French painter (died 1935)
• April 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and artist's model (Édouard Manet) (died 1900)
• June 2 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (died 1934)
• August 12 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter, naturalist and teacher (died 1921)
• November 25 – Mary Fraser Tytler, British craftswoman and designer (died 1938)
• December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, American art collector (died 1919)
• Christopher Whall, English stained-glass artist (died 1924)

Deaths

• January 30 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (born 1784)
• February 11 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (born 1764)
• February 15 – Francis Engleheart, English engraver (born 1775) ^[1]
• March 5 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (born 1806)
• March 14 – Ellen Sharples, English painter who specialized in portraits and watercolor miniatures (born 1769) ^[2]
• March 18 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (born 1796)
• March 29 – Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection (born 1786) ^[3]
• May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (born 1791)
• May 10 – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (born 1760) ^[4]
• June 8 – Bianca Milesi, Italian writer, painter and patriot (born 1790)
• June 26 – Moses Haughton the younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (born 1773)
• August 21 – Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor (born 1790)
• August 23 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (born 1780)
• August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (born 1797)
• September 7 – Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty (born 1774) ^[5]
• November 11 – William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver (born 1774)
• November 13 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (born 1787)
• November 21 – François Marius Granet, French painter (born 1777)
• December 4 – Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (born 1771)
• December 9 – John Glover, English-born Australian landscape painter (born 1767)
• December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

References

1. "Obituary—Mr. Francis Engleheart". The Gentleman's Magazine. Edw. Cave. August 1849. p.  212.
2. Katharine McCook Knox (1930). The Sharples, Their Portraits of George Washington and His Contemporaries: A Diary and an Account of the Life and Work of James Sharples and His Family in England and America . Yale University Press. p.  58.
3. John Thomas Smith (1829). Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake. John Lane. p. 332.
4. Katsushika Hokusai; Peter Russell (February 4, 2019). Delphi Collected Works of Katsushika Hokusai (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 204. ISBN   978-1-78877-987-6.
5. Oxford University Press (June 21, 2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 333. ISBN   978-0-19-992305-2.