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1851 in art
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Events from the year
1851 in art
.
Events
March –
English
sculptor
Frederick Scott Archer
makes public the
wet plate collodion
photographic process.
[
1
]
May 1
–
The Great Exhibition
opens at Crystal Palace, London. Works of art on display include the
Tara Brooch
, handicrafts and ornaments by the
Sindhis
, an
electrotype
of
John Evan Thomas
' sculpture
Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent
, and a demonstration by makers of
Bristol blue glass
.
May 5
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1851
opens at the
National Gallery
in London
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo
opens in
Brescia
, Italy.
Missions Héliographiques
established by
Prosper Mérimée
to photograph historical French architecture.
Works
Landseer
–
Monarch of the Glen
Edward Hodges Baily
–
Peel Memorial, Bury
(sculpture)
John Bell
– sculptures at
The Great Exhibition
Andromeda
The Eagle Slayer
(cast iron)
Una and the Lion
Charles Allston Collins
–
Convent Thoughts
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
–
La Danse des Nymphes
Jean-Léon Gérôme
-
Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer
Francesco Hayez
Antonietta Tarsis Basilico
Matilde Juva-Branca
La Meditazione
William Holman Hunt
–
The Hireling Shepherd
Sir
Edwin Landseer
Monarch of the Glen
Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Frederick Richard Lee
–
Shattered Oak in Bedfordshire
Emanuel Leutze
–
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Daniel Maclise
–
Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster
John Jabez Edwin Mayall
–
The Lord's Prayer
(
daguerrotype
)
[
2
]
John Everett Millais
The Bridesmaid
Mariana
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
Karl Heinrich Möller –
Athena Arms the Warrior
(sculpture, Berlin)
Stephen Pearce
–
The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin
Soma Orlai Petrich
–
The Corpse of Louis II
Richard Redgrave
–
The Outcast
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
–
Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies him her Salutation
Théophile Schuler
–
The Chariot of Death
(painting, begun in 1848)
Rebecca Solomon
–
The Governess
Clarkson Stanfield
–
Trajan's Arch, Ancona
John Thomas
–
Charity
(sculpture)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
–
The First of May, 1851
Publications
John Leech
–
The Comic History of Rome
Edward Lear
–
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Albania
John Ruskin
–
Pre-Raphaelitism
Births
January 17
–
A. B. Frost
, American illustrator (died
1928
)
January 28
–
Andreas Aubert
, Norwegian art historian (died
1913
)
February 3
–
Wilhelm Trübner
, German realist painter (died
1917
)
April 19
–
Đorđe Krstić
, one of the leading three Serbian
Realist
painters (along with
Uroš Predić
and
Paja Jovanović
) (died
1907
)
July 5
–
William Lionel Wyllie
, English marine painter (died
1931
)
July 23
–
Peder Severin Krøyer
, Norwegian painter (died
1909
)
October 2
–
Francesco Paolo Michetti
, Italian painter (died
1929
)
October 13
–
Charles Sprague Pearce
, American painter (died
1914
)
November 21
–
Leslie Ward
("Spy"), English caricaturist (died
1922
)
December 20
–
Thérèse Schwartze
, Dutch portrait painter (died
1918
)
Deaths
January 9
Michel Martin Drolling
, French painter of history and portraits (born
1789
)
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek
, Dutch painter and draughtsman (born
1778
)
January 27
–
John James Audubon
, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (born
1785
)
March 10
–
Abraham Constantin
, Swiss enamel painter (born
1785
)
April 7
–
Henry Thomas Alken
,
English
engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (born
1785
)
April 8
–
John Henning
, Scottish sculptor and medallist (born
1771
)
July 10
–
Louis Daguerre
, French inventor of
daguerreotype
photography (born
1787
)
July 11
–
Benjamin Duterrau
, French painter and engraver (born
1768
)
October 25
–
Giorgio Pullicino
, Maltese painter and architect (born
1779
)
October 29
–
William Wyon
, English chief
engraver
at the
Royal Mint
(born
1795
)
November –
Willis Buell
, American politician and portrait painter (born
1790
)
December 6
–
John Buckler
, English draughtsman and engraver (born
1770
)
December 19
–
J. M. W. Turner
, English
Romantic
landscape
painter
,
watercolourist
and
printmaker
(born
1775
)
References
↑
The Chemist
March 1851.
↑
Gernsheim, Helmut
(1991).
Creative Photography: aesthetic trends 1839-1960
. New York: Dover.
ISBN
0-486-26750-4
.
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