1841 in art

Publications

• Edward Lear – Views in Rome and its Environs (lithographs).
• John Ruskin – The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.

Works

Births

• January 14 – Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (died 1895)
• February 4 – Charles Édouard Delort, French academic painter (died 1895)
• February 16 – Armand Guillaumin, Impressionist painter (died 1927)
• February 25 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Impressionist painter (died 1919)
• September 4 – Albert Joseph Moore, painter (died 1893)
• December 6 – Frédéric Bazille, Impressionist painter (died 1870)

Deaths

• January 7 – James Arthur O'Connor, Irish landscape painter (born 1792)
• January 12 – Alexander Day, English miniature painter and art dealer (born 1772)
• February 14 – Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin, French chemist, medallist, politician, and man of letters (born 1757)
• April 10 – Henri Van Assche, Belgian painter (born 1774)
• June 1 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter (born 1785)
• July 27 (O.S. July 15) – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and painter (born 1814) (in a duel)
• August 15 – Elizabeth Gould, illustrator (born 1804)
• September 2 – Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver (born 1762)
• October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter (born 1781)
• November 11 – Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, French painter known for his landscapes (born 1757)
• November 17 – Cladius Detlev Fritzsch, also known as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter (born 1765)
• November 23 – Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (born 1793)
• November 25 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, sculptor (born 1781)
• date unknown – Gustaf Erik Hedman, Finnish painter (born 1777)
• probable – José Gil de Castro, Afro-Peruvian painter especially of portraits of Peru's heroes (born 1785)

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