1848 in art

Births

• January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American painter (died 1933)
• February 18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
• March 1 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1907)
• March 14 – Lise Tréhot, French art model died 1922)
• March 18 – Princess Louise, member of the British royal family and sculptor (died 1939)
• March 22 – Sarah Purser, Irish painter and stained-glass maker (died 1943)
• April 29 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1906)
• June 8 – Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1903)
• August 10 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (died 1892)
• August 19 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (died 1894)
• September 26 – Helen Allingham, English painter and illustrator (died 1926)
• October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and arts patron (died 1929)
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• Giovanni Battista Amendola, Italian-born sculptor (died 1887)
• Helen Thornycroft, English painter (died 1937)

Deaths

• January 14 – Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (born 1821)
• February 7 – Christen Købke, Danish painter (born 1810)
• February 11 – Thomas Cole, American landscape painter (born 1801)
• February 29 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (born 1775)
• March 23 – Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (born 1770)
• March 29 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (born 1803)
• May 17 – Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (born 1761)
• May 30 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (born 1774)
• June 28 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (born 1768)
• August 15 – Pyotr Sokolov, Russian aquarelle portraitist (born 1791)
• August 20 – Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1790)
• November 14 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (born 1802)
• December 13 – John Ternouth, English sculptor (born 1796)

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