1850 in art
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Events from the year 1850 in art.
Events
- 6 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850 opens at the National Gallery in London
- Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy,[1] Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.
- Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.
Works

- Ivan Aivazovsky â The Ninth Wave
- Oswald Achenbach â Evening in the Campagna
- Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen â The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
- Paul Baudry â Zenobia Found by the Shepherds
- Théodore Chassériau
- Marshall Claxton â Lady Godiva
- Charles Allston Collins â Berengaria's Alarm
- James Collinson
- Answering the Emigrant's Letter
- The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot â Une Matinée
- Gustave Courbet
- Hippolyte Delaroche â Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
- Charles Lock Eastlake â The Good Samaritan[2]
- William Maw Egley â Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
- Emmanuel Frémiet
- Wounded Bear
- Wounded Dog
- J. W. Glass -
- John Rolfe and Pocahontas
- Francis Grant â Portrait of John Gibson Lockhart
- Horatio Greenough â The Rescue (statue)
- Francesco Hayez
- The Meditation (first version)
- Susanna at her Bath
- John Rogers Herbert
- Children of the Painter
- Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)
- Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)
- James Holland â Greenwich Hospital from the West Side[3]
- William Holman Hunt â A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
- Daniel Huntington â Feckenham in the Tower
- Edwin Landseer â A Dialogue at Waterloo
- Jan August Hendrik Leys â Divine Service in Holland
- Daniel Maclise â Macready as Werner
- Adolph von Menzel â Round Table at Sansouci
- John Everett Millais
- Jean-François Millet â The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Henry Wyndham Phillips â The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
- David Roberts â Interior of Saint-Gommaire, Lierre
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â Ecce Ancilla Domini!
- Théodore Rousseau - The Forest of Fontainebleau: Morning (c.)
- Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) â Bavaria statue
- Carl Spitzweg â The Bookworm
- Clarkson Stanfield â Macbeth and the Witches
- J.M.W. Turner
- George Frederic Watts â Found Drowned (approximate date)
Births
- January 1 â Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1894)
- January 5 â Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)
- January 27 â John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)
- February 27 â Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died 1927)
- March 9 â Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1925)
- April 19 â Edward John Gregory, English painter (died 1909)
- April 20
- Daniel Chester French, American Aculptor (died 1931)
- Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died 1924)
- April 26 â Harry Bates, English sculptor (died 1899)
- May 8 â Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died 1899)
- July 7 â Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died 1930)
- September 29 â George Hitchcock, American-born painter en plein air (died 1913)
- November 22 â Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died 1932)
- September 23 â Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died 1934)
- November 28 â Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died 1917)
- December 25 â Florence Griswold, American curator (died 1937)
- December 31 â John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)
Death
- January 16 â Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)
- January 20 â Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)
- January 22 â William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)
- January 27 â Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)
- February 23 â Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)
- April 11 â Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)
- April 15 â Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)
- April 16 â Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)
- May â Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)
- July 22 â Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)
- August 13 â Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)
- August 27 â Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)
- October 2 â Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)
- November 10 â Alexandre-Ãvariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)
- December 8 â Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)
- date unknown
- Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)
- Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)
- François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)
- Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)