1852 in art
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Events from the year 1852 in art.
Events
- February 5 â Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg.
- May 1 â The Salon of 1852 opens at the Palais-Royal in Paris
- May 3 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1852 opens at the National Gallery in London
- June 1 â The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery.[1]
Works
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- Théodore Chassériau â Le Harem (approximate date)
- Frederic Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia[2]
- Edward William Cooke â San Giorgio Maggiore and the Salute, Venice
- Gustave Courbet
- Village Damsels
- A Girl Spinning
- Thomas Couture â Anselm Feuerbach
- Eugène Delacroix â Marphise
- Anselm Feuerbach â Hafiz at the Fountain
- William Powell Frith â The Bride of Lammermoor
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â The Idyll[3]
- Francis Grant
- Hiroshige â Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (first publication)
- William Holman Hunt â Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')
- George Inness â A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
- George Jones â Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work
- Alexander Kotzebue â The Battle of Zorndorf
- Frederic Leighton â The Death of Brunelleschi
- Charles Robert Leslie â Portrait of John Everett Millais
- John Martin â The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
- John Everett Millais
- David Roberts â The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition
- François Rude â Joan of Arc (marble)
- Henry Courtney Selous â The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria
- Clarkson Stanfield â The Harbour of La Rochelle
- John Steell â The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh)
- Thomas Sully -
- Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl â Miners in the Sierras
- Edwin White -
- Pocahontas Informing John Smith of a Conspiracy of the Indians
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter â The Cousins
Exhibitions
- The Society of Arts holds Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography, a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.[4]
Publications
- Edward Lear â Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria
Births
- April 1 â Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (died 1911)
- April 12 â Petar UbavkiÄ, Serbian sculptor and painter (died 1910)
- April 18 â George Clausen, English artist (died 1944)
- May 18 â Gertrude Käsebier, née Stanton, American portrait photographer (died 1934)
- July 27 â Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (died 1901)
- September 21 â Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (died 1922)
Deaths
- January 1 â Kapiton Pavlov, Russian portrait painter (born 1791)
- February 10 â Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (born 1783)[5]
- February 24 â John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790)
- March 9 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (born 1779)
- April 5 â William Cuming, Irish portrait painter (born 1769)
- May 30 â George Chinnery, English painter working in China (born 1774)
- June 4 â James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1790)
- June 11 â Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (born 1799)
- July 12 â Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (born 1780)
- August 4 â Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (born 1801)
- August 14 â Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (born 1762)
- September 14 â Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator and designer (born 1812)
- September 20 â William Finden, English engraver (born 1787)
- September 23 â John Vanderlyn, American painter in the neoclassical style (born 1775)
- October 17 â Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter (born 1799)
- October 26 â Johann Erdmann Hummel, German painter (born 1769)
- October 29 â Ãtienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (born 1796)
- December 18 â Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (born 1805)