1844 in art

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July 31 - Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.

Gustave Courbet
- Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- The Hammock
J. M. W. Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed

May 21 - Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", modernist primitive painter (d. 1910)
May 22 - Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter (d. 1926)
July 25 - Thomas Eakins, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1916)
August 5 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
October 22 - Lady Margaret Forrest, patron of the arts (d. 1929)
October 28 - Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (d. 1917)
date unknown - Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
date unknown - Mihály Munkácsy, painter (d. 1909)