1849 in art

Events from the year 1849 in art.

Events

• March – The Journal of Design and Manufactures is established by Henry Cole in London.
• 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1849 opens at the National Gallery in London
• May
• First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in London: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ' at the Institution for the Free Exhibition of Modern Art's "St. George's Gallery" on Knightsbridge next to Hyde Park Corner.
• John Ruskin publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
• Salon of 1849

• Ivan Aivazovsky – '
• Rosa Bonheur – Ploughing in the Nivernais
• Auguste Couder – '
• Gustave Courbet – After Dinner at Ornans
• Asher Brown Durand – Kindred Spirits
• Arthur Hughes – Musidora Bathing
• William Holman Hunt
• The Haunted Manor
• Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions
• Franz Krüger – Parade in Potsdam in 1817
• John Everett Millais – Isabella
• Andreas Müller – '
• John O'Connor – Diorama of the Queen's Visit to Ireland
• Joseph Noel Paton – The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
• John Phillip – Drawing for the Militia
• Clarkson Frederick Stanfield – Tilbury Fort - Wind Against Tide
• J.M.W. Turner – The Wreck Buoy
• Alexander von Kotzebue – Capture of Berlin

Births

• January 12 – Jean Béraud, French painter (died 1935)
• April 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and artist's model (Édouard Manet) (died 1900)
• June 2 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (died 1934)
• August 12 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter, naturalist and teacher (died 1921)
• November 25 – Mary Fraser Tytler, British craftswoman and designer (died 1938)
• December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, American art collector (died 1919)
• Christopher Whall, English stained-glass artist (died 1924)

Deaths

• January 30 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (born 1784)
• February 11 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (born 1764)
• February 15 – Francis Engleheart, English engraver (born 1775)
• March 5 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (born 1806)
• March 14 – Ellen Sharples, English painter who specialized in portraits and watercolor miniatures (born 1769)
• March 18 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (born 1796)
• March 29 – Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection (born 1786)
• May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (born 1791)
• May 10 – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (born 1760)
• June 8 – Bianca Milesi, Italian writer, painter and patriot (born 1790)
• June 26 – Moses Haughton the younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (born 1773)
• August 21 – Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor (born 1790)
• August 23 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (born 1780)
• August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (born 1797)
• September 7 – Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty (born 1774)
• November 11 – William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver (born 1774)
• November 13 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (born 1787)
• November 21 – François Marius Granet, French painter (born 1777)
• December 4 – Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (born 1771)
• December 9 – John Glover, English-born Australian landscape painter (born 1767)
• December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

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