1843 in art
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Events from the year 1843 in art.
Events
- 8 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London.[1]
- August â Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
- The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.
Publications
Works

- Berlin Peace Column
- Madison Square Fountain, New York City
- Martin Archer Shee â Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett[3]
- Théodore Chassériau â The Two Sisters
- Gustave Courbet â The Desperate Man (self-portrait)
- Paul Delaroche â Charles de Rémusat
- William Etty â Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version)
- Julius Exner â Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection")
- George Hayter â The House of Commons, 1833[4]
- Eugène Lami â The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu[5]
- Charles Landseer â The Dying Warrior[6]
- Paul Falconer Poole â Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
- Hiram Powers â The Greek Slave
- David Roberts â The Gate of Metawaley[7]
- Hendrik Scheffer â Entry of Joan of Arc into Liberated Orleans
- Peter von Hess â The Battle of Borodino
- Horace Vernet â Arabs Travelling in the Desert[11]
- Gustaf Wappers â Souvenirs of Antwerp[12]
- Robert Walter Weir â Embarkation of the Pilgrims[13]
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter
- Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
- Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)
Births
- March 3 â Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
- March 14 â Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
- April 4 â William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942)
- April 8 â Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
- June 16 â Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
- July 19 â Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
- September 6 â Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
- September 25 â Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
- November 16 â Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
- November 29 â Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
- date unknown
Deaths
- January 17 â Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)[14]
- January 20 â William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)[15]
- Between February 21 and 28 â Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
- March 19 â Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)
- April 13 â Georgije BakaloviÄ, Serbian painter (born 1786)
- July 9 â Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779)[16]
- July 12 â Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)[17]
- July 23 â AntonÃn Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
- August 12 â Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787)[18]
- October 24 â Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
- November 10 â John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756)
- November 27 â VojtÄch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
- date unknown
- Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
- Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)