1847 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.

Works

• Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight
• John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
• Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty
• Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)

Births

• March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (d. 1917)
• July 20 – Max Liebermann, painter (d. 1935)
• September 11 – T. C. Steele, painter (d. 1926)
• October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (d. 1921)
• October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, painter (d. 1919)
• November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (d. 1928)
• date unknown
  • John Macallan Swan, painter and sculptor (d. 1910)
  • Camille Doncieux, first wife and model of Claude Monet (d. 1879)

Deaths

• January 4 - Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (b. 1780)
• February 17 - William Collins, painter (b. 1788)
• March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (J.J. Grandville), caricaturist (b. 1803)
• May 28 - Henry Hoppner Meyer, portrait painter (b. c.1782)
• June 9 - Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (b. 1761)
• July 1 - Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (b. 1785)
• December 29 – William Crotch, musician and painter (b. 1775)
• date unknown
  • Guillaume-Joseph Roques, painter (b. 1757)
  • Shin Wui, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (b. 1769)
  • Amelia Curran, Irish painter (b. 1775)