Events from the year 1851 in art.
Events
Works
Publications
Births
- January 17 â A. B. Frost, American illustrator (died 1928)
- January 28 â Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (died 1913)
- February 3 â Wilhelm Trübner, German realist painter (died 1917)
- April 19 â ÃÂorÃÂe KrstiÃÂ, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters (along with UroÃ
¡ Prediàand Paja JovanoviÃÂ) (died 1907)
- July 5 â William Lionel Wyllie, English marine painter (died 1931)
- July 23 â Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
- October 2 â Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (died 1929)
- October 13 â Charles Sprague Pearce, American painter (died 1914)
- November 21 â Leslie Ward ("Spy"), English caricaturist (died 1922)
- December 20 â 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 â John James Audubon, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (born 1785)
- March 10 â Abraham Constantin, Swiss enamel painter (born 1785)
- April 7 â Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (born 1785)
- April 8 â John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (born 1771)
- July 10 â Louis Daguerre, French inventor of daguerreotype photography (born 1787)
- July 11 â Benjamin Duterrau, French painter and engraver (born 1768)
- October 25 â Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
- October 29 â William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (born 1795)
- November â Willis Buell, American politician and portrait painter (born 1790)
- December 6 â John Buckler, English draughtsman and engraver (born 1770)
- December 19 â J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (born 1775)
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