1848 in art
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Events from the year 1848 in art.
Events
- April 10 â John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland.[1]
- September â John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the former's family home in Gower Street (London).
- c. October â The first frescoes of scenes from English literature in the Poets' Hall of the Palace of Westminster[2] are completed: Charles West Cope's Griselda's first Trial of Patience and John Callcott Horsley's Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve.
- December 10 â The Leipzig Art Association opens the Städtische Museum.
- In Cambridge, England, the Fitzwilliam Museum's Founder's Building (designed by George Basevi and completed by C. R. Cockerell) is opened.
- In Copenhagen, Denmark, the Thorvaldsen Museum of sculpture (designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll) is opened.
- In England, John Webb Singer establishes the Frome Art Metal Works, a foundry that becomes Morris Singer.
Works
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- Ivan Aivazovsky â Battle of Chesma
- Richard Ansdell â The Fight for the Standard
- Herman Wilhelm Bissen â Den Danske Landsoldat
- Karl Bryullov â Self-portrait
- Edward William Cooke â Dutch Yachting on the Zuider Zee
- Auguste Couder â The Tennis Court Oath
- David Cox â Crossing the Sands
- Thomas Crawford - Mexican Girl Dying
- Edward Hicks â The Cornell Farm
- Holman Hunt â The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness attending the Revelry, Eve of Saint Agnes
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres â Baronne de Rothschild
- August Kopisch â The Pontine Marshes at Sunset
- Edwin Landseer â A Random Shot
- Emanuel Leutze - The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops
- John Everett Millais â Cymon and Iphigenia
- Jean-François Millet
- The Winnower
- The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon (later covered by The Young Shepherdess in 1870 due to a scarcity of materials during the Franco-Prussian War; rediscovered in 1984 by x-ray at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts)
- Samuel Palmer â The Water Mill
- Ferdinand Richardt
- Frederiksborg Castle
- Kronborg Castle
- David Roberts â Mont Saint Michel
- Théophile Schuler â The Chariot of Death (painting, completed in 1851)
- Clarkson Stanfield â In the Gulf of Venice
- John Evan Thomas â Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)
- Philipp Veit â Germania
- George Frederic Watts â Orlando Pursuing the Fata Morgana
- Richard Caton Woodville â Politics in an Oyster House
Births
- January 13 â Lilla Cabot Perry, American painter (died 1933)
- February 18 â Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
- March 1 â Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1907)
- March 14 â Lise Tréhot, French art model died 1922)
- March 18 â Princess Louise, member of the British royal family and sculptor (died 1939)
- March 22 â Sarah Purser, Irish painter and stained-glass maker (died 1943)
- April 29 â Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1906)
- June 8 â Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1903)
- August 10 â William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (died 1892)
- August 19 â Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (died 1894)
- September 26 â Helen Allingham, English painter and illustrator (died 1926)
- October 3 â Henry Lerolle, French painter and arts patron (died 1929)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Amendola, Italian-born sculptor (died 1887)
- Helen Thornycroft, English painter (died 1937)
Deaths
- January 14 â Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (born 1821)
- February 7 â Christen Købke, Danish painter (born 1810)
- February 11 â Thomas Cole, American landscape painter (born 1801)
- February 29 â Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (born 1775)
- March 23 â Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (born 1770)
- March 29 â Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (born 1803)
- May 17 â Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (born 1761)
- May 30 â Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (born 1774)
- June 28 â Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (born 1768)
- August 15 â Pyotr Sokolov, Russian aquarelle portraitist (born 1791)
- August 20 â Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1790)
- November 14 â Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (born 1802)
- December 13 â John Ternouth, English sculptor (born 1796)