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1849 in art
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Births
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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.
7 May – The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1849
opens at the
National Gallery
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
Arthur Hughes
–
Musidora Bathing
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
Franz Krüger
–
Parade in Potsdam in 1817
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
John Phillip
–
Drawing for the Militia
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
–
Tilbury Fort – Wind Against Tide
J.M.W. Turner
–
The Wreck Buoy
Alexander von Kotzebue
–
Capture of Berlin
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
↑
"Obituary—Mr. Francis Engleheart"
.
The Gentleman's Magazine
. Edw. Cave. August 1849. p.
212
.
↑
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
.
↑
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.
↑
Katsushika Hokusai; Peter Russell (February 4, 2019).
Delphi Collected Works of Katsushika Hokusai (Illustrated)
. Delphi Classics. p.
204.
ISBN
978-1-78877-987-6
.
↑
Oxford University Press (June 21, 2012).
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
. OUP USA. p.
333.
ISBN
978-0-19-992305-2
.
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