1842 in art

Events from the year 1842 in art.

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 opens in London
• David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
• Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
• Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
• George Hayter granted a knighthood.
• William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
• George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
• Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.
• Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London.

Works

• Thomas Brigstocke – Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother
• Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau
• Théodore Chassériau – The Descent from the Cross
• Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Gustave Courbet – Self-Portrait with a Black Dog
• Richard Dadd – Come unto these Yellow Sands
• Johan Christian Dahl
• Frogner Manor
• View from Stalheim
• William Powell Frith
• Dolly Varden
• Measuring Heights
• Benjamin Haydon
• The Black Prince Thanking Lord James Audley for his Gallantry in the Battle of Poitiers
• Curtius Leaping into the Gulf
• The Maid of Saragossa
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• Francesco Hayez – Samson and the Lion
• George Hayter – The Marriage of Queen Victoria
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry
• Odalisque with Slave
• Portrait of the Duke of Orléans
• Henry Inman – Portrait of Angelica Singleton Van Buren
• Edwin Landseer – There's No Place Like Home
• Charles Robert Leslie – Queen Katherine and Patience
• Daniel Maclise –
• The Origin of the Harp
• The Play Scene in Hamlet
• Waterfall at St Nighton's Kieve
• William Mulready – Crossing the Ford
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Michael Faraday
• Richard Redgrave
• Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper
• Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands
• J. M. W. Turner
• Campo Santo, Venice
• Peace – Burial at Sea
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• War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
• Rigi series of watercolours
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter –

Births

• June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
• October 18 – Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922)
• November 29 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
• December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
• December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)
• December 31 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)

Deaths

• March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774)
• March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755)
• May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)
• May 26 – James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802)
• July 7 – Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759)
• July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
• August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
• September 11 – Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (born 1800)
• November 17 – John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
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• Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (born 1774)
• George Barret, Jr., English landscape painter (born 1767)
• Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (born 1779)
• Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (born 1796)

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