1846 in art
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Events from the year 1846 in art.
Events
- 4 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1846 opens at the National Gallery in London
- Edward Lear publishes Illustrated Excursions to Italy and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria.
- The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner.
Works
- Ivan Aivazovsky â Battle of Navarino
- Thomas Cole â Catskill Landscape
- William Etty â Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (Tate Britain version)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â Young Greeks at a Cockfight
- Louis Hersent â Portrait of Delphine Gay
- Edward Hicks â Noah's Ark
- Emanuel Leutze â The Courtship of Anne Boleyn
- John Everett Millais â Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (Tate Britain)
- Jean-François Millet â Prometheus Unbound
- Rembrandt Peale â Self-portrait
- Henry William Pickersgill â Portrait of Robert Vernon[1]
- David Roberts â A Street in Cairo[2]
- Eliseo Sala â Pia de' Tolomei
- Henri Frédéric Schopin â The Divorce of the Empress Josephine
- Clarkson Stanfield
- Giovanni Strazza â Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert (completed).[4]
- J.M.W. Turner
- Horace Vernet â Louis Philippe and His Sons
- Peter von Hess â The Battle of Smolensk[5]
- Edward Matthew Ward
- George Frederic Watts â Paolo and Francesca
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales
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Births
- March 17 â Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (died 1901)[7]
- May 3 â Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (died 1920)
- May 21 â Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (died 1920)
- October 14 â Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (died 1915)
- October 28 â Albert Dubois-Pillet, French Neo-impressionist painter (died 1890)
- November 3 â Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (died 1933)
- December 9 â John Macallan Swan, English painter and sculptor (died 1910)
Deaths
- January 22 â Louis-Pierre Baltard, French architect and engraver (born 1764)
- April 16 â Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (born 1778)
- June 8 â Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss painter and cartoonist (born 1799)
- June 22 â Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
- July 16 â Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (born 1779)
- August 11 â Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes (born 1769)
- August 12 â John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American landscape painter and lithographer (born 1804)
- October 5 â Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)[8]
- December 12 â Charles Alexandre Lesueur, French artist and explorer (born 1778)
- date unknown â Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)