1843 in art

Events

• August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, murders his father.
• John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.

Works

Hayter – Self-portrait

• Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
• Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait; approximate date)
• Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
• Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy’s Plaster Cast Collection")
• Sir George Hayter – Self-portrait
• Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
• J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
• Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
  • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

Births

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
• March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
• April 4 – William Jackson, photographer (died 1942)
• April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
• June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
• July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
• September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
• November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
• date unknown
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)
  • Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)

Deaths

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)
• Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
• April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786)
• April 16 – Christian Friedrich Traugott Duttenhofer, German engraver (born 1778)
• July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)
• July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, sculptor (born 1787)
• October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
• November 10 – John Trumbull, painter (born 1756)
• November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
  • Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during in the late Edo period (born unknown)
  • Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)