1840 in art

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: F.E.V. Bazin.

Births

• February 7 – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, Swedish sculptor (died 1920)
• April 22 – Odilon Redon, French painter and graphic artist (died 1916)
• April 28 – Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (died 1913)
• May 2 – Philippe Solari, Provençal sculptor (died 1906)
• May 28 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (died 1884)
• July 8 – Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (died 1925)
• August 14 – Briton Rivière, English painter (died 1920)
• September 27 – Thomas Nast, German American cartoonist (died 1902)
• November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (died 1917)
• November 14 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (died 1926)
• December 1 – Marie Bracquemond, née Quivoron, French Impressionist painter (died 1916)
• probable – Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Irish American photographer of the American Civil War (died 1882)

Deaths

• January 16 – FrantiÅ¡ek Tkadlík, Czech painter (born 1786)
• February 9 – Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (born 1781)
• February 27 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (born 1794)
• March 19 – Thomas Daniell, landscape painter (born 1749)
• March 30 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (born 1778)
• April 7 – William Heath, English satirical engraver (born 1794)
• April 10 – Alexander Nasmyth, painter (born 1758)
• May 5 – Robert Trewick Bone English painter of sacred, classical and genre scenes (born 1790)
• May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, painter (born 1774)
• May 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (born 1772)
• June 20 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter (born 1759)
• July 6 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (born 1763)
• July 23 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (born 1798)
• August 30 - Jonas Damelis, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (born 1780)
• October 28 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, and landscape painter (born 1778)
• November 7 – Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (born 1760)
• December 11 – Franz Bauer, Austrian microscopist and botanical artist (born 1758)
• date unknown
• Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (born 1782)
• Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (born 1773)

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