1840 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Nelson's column is erected in Trafalgar Square, London.

[edit] Works

• Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life (National Gallery, Washington; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York)
• Eugène Delacroix - Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (Louvre, Paris)
• Edwin Landseer - Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Slave Ship or Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

[edit] Births

• May 28 - Hans Makart, painter and designer
• September 27 - Thomas Nast, cartoonist
• November 12 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor
• November 14 - Claude Monet, Impressionist painter

[edit] Deaths

• March 19 - Thomas Daniell, landscape painter
• March 30 - Beau Brummell, leader of fashion
• April 10 - Alexander Nasmyth, painter
• May 7 - Caspar David Friedrich, painter
• June 20 - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter