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1850 in art
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Events
Awards
Works
Births
Death
References
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Events from the year
1850 in art
.
Events
6 May
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850
opens at the
National Gallery
in
London
Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the
Royal Academy
,
[
1
]
Millais'
Christ in the House of His Parents
being attacked for its ultra-realism.
James Collinson
resigns from the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
, which then dissolves.
Francisco Goya
's engravings,
Proverbios
, are posthumously published.
Edouard Pingret
relocates to
Mexico City
.
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome
, painting:
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
,
Paul Baudry
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture:
Grand Prix de Rome
, music:
J.A. Charlot
.
Works
J.-F. Millet
–
The Sower
Ivan Aivazovsky
–
The Ninth Wave
Oswald Achenbach
–
Evening in the Campagna
Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen
–
The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
Théodore Chassériau
–
Othello and Desdemona in Venice
Marshall Claxton
–
Lady Godiva
Charles Allston Collins
–
Berengaria's Alarm
James Collinson
Answering the Emigrant's Letter
The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
–
Une Matinée
Gustave Courbet
A Burial At Ornans
The Stone Breakers
Hippolyte Delaroche
–
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
William Maw Egley
–
Prospero and Miranda
(approximate date)
Emmanuel Frémiet
Wounded Bear
Wounded Dog
J. W. Glass
-
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
Horatio Greenough
–
The Rescue
(statue)
Francesco Hayez
The Meditation
(first version)
Susanna at her Bath
John Rogers Herbert
Children of the Painter
Cordelia Disinherited
(oil on canvas,
Harris Museum
,
Preston, Lancashire
)
Lear Disinheriting Cordelia
(
fresco
in Poets' Hall,
Palace of Westminster
)
William Holman Hunt
–
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
Daniel Huntington
–
Feckenham in the Tower
Edwin Landseer
–
A Dialogue at Waterloo
Jan August Hendrik Leys
–
Divine Service in Holland
Adolph von Menzel
–
Round Table at Sansouci
John Everett Millais
Christ in the House of His Parents
Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
Jean-François Millet
–
The Sower
(
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
Henry Wyndham Phillips
–
The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
–
Ecce Ancilla Domini
Ludwig von Schwanthaler
(posthumous) –
Bavaria statue
Carl Spitzweg
–
The Bookworm
Clarkson Stanfield
–
Macbeth and the Witches
J.M.W. Turner
The Departure of the Fleet
Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas
George Frederic Watts
–
Found Drowned
(approximate date)
Births
January 1
–
Per Hasselberg
, Swedish sculptor (died
1894
)
January 5
–
Theodoor Verstraete
, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died
1907
)
January 27
–
John Collier
, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died
1934
)
February 27
–
Henry E. Huntington
, American art collector (died
1927
)
March 9
– Sir
Hamo Thornycroft
, English sculptor (died
1925
)
April 19
–
Edward John Gregory
, English painter (died
1909
)
April 20
Daniel Chester French
,
American Aculptor
(died
1931
)
Jean-François Raffaëlli
, French realist painter (died
1924
)
April 26
–
Harry Bates
, English sculptor (died
1899
)
May 8
–
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
, Brazilian painter (died
1899
)
July 7
–
Max Schmalzl
, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died
1930
)
September 29
–
George Hitchcock
, American-born painter
en plein air
(died
1913
)
November 22
–
Georg Dehio
, Estonian-born German art historian (died
1932
)
September 23
–
Alfred Boucher
, French sculptor (died
1934
)
November 28
–
Robert Koehler
, German-born American painter (died
1917
)
December 25
–
Florence Griswold
, American curator (died
1937
)
December 31
–
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
, Canadian portrait painter (died
1938
)
Death
January 16
–
Daniel Caffé
, German pastel painter of portraits (born
1750
)
January 20
–
Lorenzo Bartolini
,
Italian
sculptor
(born
1777
)
January 22
–
William Westall
,
English
landscape painter (born
1781
)
January 27
–
Johann Gottfried Schadow
, sculptor (born
1764
)
February 23
–
Sir William Allan
, historical painter (born
1782
)
April 11
–
Jean Augustin Daiwaille
, Dutch portrait painter (born
1786
)
April 15
–
Jules Robert Auguste
, French
Impressionist
painter (born
1789
)
April 16
– Madame
Marie Tussaud
, French-born modeller of waxworks (born
1761
)
May –
Richard James Wyatt
, sculptor (born
1795
)
July 22
–
Vicente López y Portaña
,
Spanish
portrait painter (born
1772
)
August 13
– Sir
Martin Archer Shee
, Irish-born portrait painter (born
1769
)
August 27
–
Henry Room
, English portrait painter (born
1802
)
October 2
–
Sarah Biffen
, disabled English painter (born
1784
)
November 10
–
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
, French painter and sculptor in the
troubadour style
(born
1780
)
December 8
–
Anatole Devosge
, French painter (born
1770
)
date unknown
Jean Broc
, painter (born
1771
)
Francis Hervé
, painter (born
1781
)
François Mulard
,
Neoclassical
French painter (born
1769
)
Fei Danxu
, Chinese painter in the
Qing dynasty
(born
1801
)
References
↑
"The Royal Academy Exhibition"
.
The Builder
:
255–
256. 1 June 1850
. Retrieved
2012-04-09
.
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