1842 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
• Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
• William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
• George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.

[edit] Works

[edit] Births

• February 6 - Paul Sébillot, painter and author
• September 6 - Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, photographer
• November 29 - William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator
• date unknown - William Anderson, collector of Japanese art

[edit] Deaths

• March 30 - Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, painter
• July 28 - John Sell Cotman, painter of the Norwich School
• November 17 - John Varley, watercolour painter