1851 in art

Publications

• John Leech – The Comic History of Rome
• Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Albania
• John Ruskin – Pre-Raphaelitism

Births

• January 17 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (died 1928)
• January 28 – Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (died 1913)
• February 3 – Wilhelm Trübner, German realist painter (died 1917)
• April 19 – Đorđe Krstić, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters (along with UroÅ¡ Predić and Paja Jovanović) (died 1907)
• July 5 – William Lionel Wyllie, English marine painter (died 1931)
• July 23 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
• October 2 – Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (died 1929)
• October 13 – Charles Sprague Pearce, American painter (died 1914)
• November 21 – Leslie Ward ("Spy"), English caricaturist (died 1922)
• December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter (died 1918)

Deaths

• January 9
• Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits (born 1789)
• Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter and draughtsman (born 1778)
• January 27 – John James Audubon, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (born 1785)
• March 10 – Abraham Constantin, Swiss enamel painter (born 1785)
• April 7 – Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (born 1785)
• April 8 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (born 1771)
• July 10 – Louis Daguerre, French inventor of daguerreotype photography (born 1787)
• July 11 – Benjamin Duterrau, French painter and engraver (born 1768)
• October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
• October 29 – William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (born 1795)
• November – Willis Buell, American politician and portrait painter (born 1790)
• December 6 – John Buckler, English draughtsman and engraver (born 1770)
• December 19 – J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (born 1775)

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