1840 in art
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Events from the year 1840 in art.
Events
- March 4 â Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their "Daguerreian Parlor" on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's first commercial photography portrait studio.
- May 1 â Issue in the United Kingdom of the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, depicting the head of Queen Victoria engraved by Charles Heath and his son Frederick based on a sketch provided by Henry Corbould itself based on a cameo portrait by William Wyon,[1][2] together with Mulready stationery. The stamp becomes valid for postage from May 6.[3]
- September 30 â Foundation of Nelson's Column laid in London,[4] Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.[5]
Works
- Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc â July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris; incorporating Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté and bas-reliefs by Antoine-Louis Barye and others
- Thomas Jones Barker â The Bride of Death
- François Bouchot â Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud
- John Gadsby Chapman -
- The Baptism of Pocahontas
- Théodore Chassériau
- Francis Danby â The Deluge
- Josef Danhauser â Liszt at the Piano
- Eugène Delacroix (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
- William Etty
- Andromeda, Perseus Coming to Her Rescue
- The Wrestlers (approximate date)
- Francis Grant â Queen Victoria Riding Out
- Horatio Greenough â George Washington (statue, Washington, D.C.)
- Benjamin Robert Haydon â The Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV
- George Peter Alexander Healy â Portrait of Marshal Soult
- Samuel Jackson â View of the Avon at Hotwells
- Edwin Landseer â Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury (Chatsworth House, England)
- William Linnell -Smugglerius[6]
- Robert Scott Lauder â Portrait of David Roberts
- Daniel Maclise
- John Martin â The Eve of the Deluge (British Royal Collection) and The Assuaging of the Waters (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
- Andrew Morton â The Duke of Wellington with Colonel Gurwood at Apsley House
- Edward Villiers Rippingille â Mendicants of the Roman Campagna
- David Roberts â A View in Cairo
- John Christian Schetky â Loss of the Royal George
- Clarkson Stanfield â A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno[8]
- Armand Toussaint â Persephone (sculpture) (approx. date)
- J. M. W. Turner
- The Slave Ship, or Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying â Typhoon coming on (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Venice, the Bridge of Sighs
- Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight
- Horace Vernet
- David Wilkie
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: F.E.V. Bazin.
Births
- February 7 â Ida Göthilda Nilsson, Swedish sculptor (died 1920)
- April 22 â Odilon Redon, French painter and graphic artist (died 1916)
- April 28 â Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (died 1913)
- May 2 â Philippe Solari, Provençal sculptor (died 1906)
- May 28 â Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (died 1884)
- July 8 â Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (died 1925)
- August 14 â Briton Rivière, English painter (died 1920)
- September 27 â Thomas Nast, German American cartoonist (died 1902)
- November 12 â Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (died 1917)
- November 14 â Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (died 1926)[9]
- December 1 â Marie Bracquemond, née Quivoron, French Impressionist painter (died 1916)
- probable â Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Irish American photographer of the American Civil War (died 1882)
Deaths
- January 16 â FrantiÅ¡ek TkadlÃk, Czech painter (born 1786)
- February 9 â Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (born 1781)
- February 27 â Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (born 1794)
- March 19 â Thomas Daniell, landscape painter (born 1749)
- March 30 â Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (born 1778)
- April 7 â William Heath, English satirical engraver (born 1794)[10]
- April 10 â Alexander Nasmyth, painter (born 1758)
- May 5 â Robert Trewick Bone English painter of sacred, classical and genre scenes (born 1790)
- May 7 â Caspar David Friedrich, painter (born 1774)
- May 11 â Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (born 1772)
- June 20 â Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter (born 1759)
- July 6 â Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (born 1763)
- July 23 â Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (born 1798)
- August 30 - Jonas Damelis, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (born 1780)
- October 28 â Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, and landscape painter (born 1778)
- November 7 â Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (born 1760)
- December 11 â Franz Bauer, Austrian microscopist and botanical artist (born 1758)
- date unknown
- Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (born 1782)
- Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (born 1773)