1834 in art

Events

• October 16 – Burning of Parliament in London witnessed by J. M. W. Turner

Works

Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834)

Paintings

• Thomas Cole – The Savage State and The Arcadian or Pastoral State from The Course of Empire
• Eugène Delacroix – The Women of Algiers
• Edward Hicks – Peaceable Kingdom
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian (Autun Cathedral)
• Thomas Luny – Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm
• J. M. W. Turner – The Fountain of Indolence

Prints

• Hiroshige – The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō (publication begins)

Sculptures

• Antoine-Augustin Préault – The Killing (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres)

Births

• February 15 – Paul Guigou, painter (died 1871)
• May 9 – Alexander Calandrelli, sculptor (died 1903)
• July 6 – Joseph Boehm, sculptor (died 1890)
• July 10 – James McNeill Whistler, painter (died 1903)
• July 19 – Edgar Degas, painter and sculptor (died 1917)
• August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (died 1904)
• December 9 – Leopold Müller, painter (died 1892)
• date unknown
  • Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (died 1899)
  • Emily Mary Osborn, painter (died 1913)

Deaths

• January 4 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (born 1764)
• February 26 – Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (born 1771)
• March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer (born 1764)
• March 31 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (born 1760)
• April 27 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver (born 1755)
• June 4 – Robert Bowyer, British miniature painter and publisher (born 1758)
• August – Peter Rindisbacher, painter (born 1806)
• December 3 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (born 1764)
• December 17 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter (born 1755)
• December 22 – Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist (born 1755)
• date unknown
  • William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver (born 1755)
  • Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (born 1771)
  • Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter (born 1757)^[1]
  • Ulrika Melin, textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (born 1767)^[2]
  • Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1763)^[3]

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