1844 in art
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Events
- June – Henry Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera to be commercially published (in London).[1]
- July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.
Works
- József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
- Gustave Courbet
- Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- The Hammock
- Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
- Théodore de Gudin – La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684
- Joseph Patrick Haverty – Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper
- Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
- Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino
- Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
- J. M. W. Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)
Births
- February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, painter (died 1909)
- April – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919)
- May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
- May 22 – Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter (died 1926)
- July 25 – Thomas Eakins, painter, photographer, sculptor (died 1916)
- August 5 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (died 1930)
- September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
- October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, patron of the arts (died 1929)
- October 25 – Viktor Oskar Tilgner, sculptor (died 1896)
- October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (died 1917)
- date unknown
- Susan Dacre, English painter (died 1933)
- Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)
Deaths
- January 8 – Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer (born 1786)
- February 21 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761)
- March 6 – Francis Nicholson, landscape painter (born 1753)
- March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
- May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (born 1760)
- May 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783)
- May 14 – Robert Hills, English painter and etcher (born 1769)
- July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, engraver (born 1785)
- August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766)
- August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762)
- October 14
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772)
- Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
- November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)
- November 18 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter (born 1775)
- date unknown
- Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (born 1792)
- Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780)
- Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (born 1782)
- Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1764)
- Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1783)
References
- ↑ "William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature". Book of the month. Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department. February 2007. Retrieved 2011-07-27.