1842 in art
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Events from the year 1842 in art.
Events
- 2 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 opens in London
- David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
- Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
- Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
- George Hayter granted a knighthood.
- William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
- George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
- Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.
- Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London.[1]
Works
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- Thomas Brigstocke â Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother
- Ford Madox Brown â Manfred on the Jungfrau
- Théodore Chassériau â The Descent from the Cross
- Thomas Cole â The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- William Collins â View of Sir David Wilkie's House in Kensington[2]
- Gustave Courbet â Self-Portrait with a Black Dog
- Richard Dadd â Come unto these Yellow Sands
- Johan Christian Dahl
- Charles Lock Eastlake â Hagar Offering Water to Her Son Ishmael in the Desert[3]
- William Powell Frith
- Benjamin Haydon
- Francesco Hayez â Samson and the Lion
- George Hayter â The Marriage of Queen Victoria
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Henry Inman â Portrait of Angelica Singleton Van Buren[4]
- Eugène Isabey â The Town and Port of Dieppe[5]
- Edwin Landseer â There's No Place Like Home
- Charles Robert Leslie â Queen Katherine and Patience
- Daniel Maclise â
- William Mulready â Crossing the Ford
- Thomas Phillips â Portrait of Michael Faraday
- Richard Redgrave
- J. M. W. Turner
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â Portrait of Prince Albert
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age
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Births
- June 12 â Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
- October 18 â Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922)
- November 29 â William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
- December 16 â Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
- December 18 â William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)
- December 31 â Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)
Deaths
- March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774)
- March 30 â Marie Louise Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755)[8]
- May 12 â Walenty WaÅkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)
- May 26 â James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802)
- July 7 â Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759)
- July 28 â John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
- August 28 â Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
- September 11 â Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (born 1800)
- November 17 â John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (born 1774)
- George Barret, Jr., English landscape painter (born 1767)
- Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (born 1779)
- Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (born 1796)