1844 in art
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Events from the year 1844 in art.
Events
- The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.[1]
- June â Henry Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera to be commercially published (in London).[2]
- July 31 â Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.[3]
Works


- József Borsos â Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
- Ford Madox Brown â The Bromley Family[4]
- William Collins â Seaford, Sussex[5]
- Charles West Cope â Palpitation[6]
- Gustave Courbet
- Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- The Hammock
- Thomas Couture â The Love of Gold[7]
- Thomas Creswick â Scene on the Tummel, Perthshire[8]
- Honoré Daumier â Les bas bleus ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs)
- Eugène Delacroix â Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
- William Powell Frith â John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scots[9]
- Théodore de Gudin â La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684
- Joseph Patrick Haverty â Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper
- Edwin Landseer â Shoeing[10]
- Carlo Marochetti â Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
- Eleuterio Pagliano â İl pepe e il peperoncino
- Dominique Papety â The Temptation of Saint Hilarion[11]
- John Partridge â Portrait of Lord Melbourne
- Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux â The Battle of Rivoli[12]
- Francesco Podesti â The Oath of the Anconetani[13]
- Richard Redgrave
- Hiram Powers â The Greek Slave (marble)
- Frederick Richard Say â Portrait of the Earl of Derby[16]
- Clarkson Stanfield
- J. M. W. Turner
- Peter von Hess â Crossing the Berezina River[24]
- William Lindsay Windus - The Black Boy (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)[25]
Births
- February 20 â Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (died 1909)
- February 26 â Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)
- April â Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919)
- April 14 â Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (died 1910)
- May 21 â Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", French modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
- May 22 â Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter (died 1926)
- July 25
- Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor (died 1916)
- Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter (died 1892)
- July 31 â Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (died 1925)
- August 5 â Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
- September 20 â William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
- October 22 â Lady Margaret Forrest, French-born Australian patron of the arts (died 1929)
- October 25 â Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Austrian sculptor (died 1896)
- October 28 â Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor (died 1917)
- date unknown â Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (died 1933)
Deaths
- February 21 â Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761)
- March 6 â Francis Nicholson, English landscape painter (born 1753)[26]
- March 24 â Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (born 1770)[27]
- May 2 â William Beckford, English novelist, patron art critic (born 1760)
- May 5 â Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783)
- May 14 â Robert Hills, English painter and etcher (born 1769)
- July 23 â Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (born 1785)
- August 6 â Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766)
- August 28 â Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762)
- October 14
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772)[28]
- Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
- November 2 â Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)[29]
- November 18 â AntonÃn Machek, Czech painter (born 1775)
- date unknown
- Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (born 1792)
- Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780)
- Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (born 1782)
- Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born 1764)
- Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1783)