1847 in art
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Events from the year 1847 in art.
Events
- 1 May â The Salon of 1847 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- 22 December â The Vernon Gift is given by the art collector Robert Vernon to the National Gallery in London, forming the basis of the Gallery's collection by British artists
- unknown date â William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster in London.
Works
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- Edward Armitage â The Battle of Meeanee[1]
- John Wilson Carmichael â HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
- Thomas Cole â Indian Pass Tawahus
- Thomas Couture â The Romans in their Decadence
- William Powell Frith â An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â The Cock Fight
- Solomon Hart â Milton Visiting Galileo when a Prisoner of the Inquisition
- John Rogers Herbert â Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
- Edward Hicks â Penn's Treaty
- Robert Huskisson â The Midsummer Night's Fairies
- Charles Lees â The Golfers
- David Roberts â Edinburgh from the Castle[2]
- Theodor Sockl â Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
- Clarkson Stanfield â French Troops Fording the Magra[3]
- Joseph Karl Stieler â Portrait of Lola Montez
- Antoine Wiertz â Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)
- Alexandre Cabanel â The Fallen Angel
- Edward Matthew Ward â The South Sea Bubble
Births
- January 15 â Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879)
- February 10 â Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933)
- March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922)
- March 19 â Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)
- April 1 â Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928)
- April 16 â Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911)
- July 20 â Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935)
- September 10 â Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915)
- September 11 â T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926)
- October 6 â Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921)
- October 15 â Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919)
- October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906)
- November 10 â Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928)
- date unknown â Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).
Deaths
- January 1 â William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786)
- January 4 â Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780)
- January 16 â Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770)
- February â Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757)[4]
- February 17 â William Collins, English painter (born 1788)
- March 17 â Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803)
- May 28 â Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780)
- June 9 â Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (born 1761)
- July 1 â Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (born 1785)
- August 17 â Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794).[5]
- August 29 â William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799)
- September 15 â Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776)
- September 28 â Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (born 1786)
- December 11 â Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life (born 1769)
- December 29 â William Crotch, English musician and painter (born 1775)[6]
- date unknown
- Ãlise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776)
- Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775)
- Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792)
- Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757)
- approximate date â Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)