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- February 3 – Jean Baptiste MadouJean Baptiste MadouJean Baptiste Madou , was a Belgian painter and lithographer.Madou was born in Brussels. He studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Francois. While draftsman to the topographical military division at Kortrijk, he received a commission for lithographic work from a Brussels...
, painter and lithographer (d. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
) - May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver (d. 18821882 in art-Events:* Walter Langley moves to Newlyn, Cornwall, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn School.-Works:*John Atkinson Grimshaw - Under the Moonbeams...
) - July 2 – Michael ThonetMichael ThonetMichael Thonet was a German-Austrian cabinet maker.Thonet was the son of master tanner Franz Anton Thonet of Boppard. Following a carpenter's apprenticeship, Thonet set himself up as an independent cabinetmaker in 1819. A year later, he married Anna Grahs, with whom he had seven sons and six...
, furniture designer (d. 18711871 in art-Paintings:*The Narrows, Lake George by Daniel Huntington*The Old Stagecoach by Eastman Johnson*The Harbour at Bordeaux by Édouard Manet *The Barricade by Édouard Manet...
) - July 17 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 18751875 in art-Paintings:*Gustave Caillebotte - Floor-scrapers *Jean-Paul Laurens - L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux ...
) - July 26 – George CatlinGeorge CatlinGeorge Catlin was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.-Early years:...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter who specialized in portraits of Native AmericansNative Americans in the United StatesNative Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
in the Old West (d. 18721872 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frank Duveneck - The Whistling Boy * John Gast - American Progress*Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice Verso *Ivan Kramskoi - Christ in the Desert*Édouard Manet...
) - August 21 – Asher Brown DurandAsher Brown DurandAsher Brown Durand was an American painter of the Hudson River School.-Early life:Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey , the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817, later entering...
, painter of the Hudson River SchoolHudson River schoolThe Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism...
(d. 18861886 in art-Events:* April - New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris....
) - September 4 – Peter FendiPeter FendiPeter Fendi was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period.-Life:...
, AustrianAustriansAustrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
portraitPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
and genreGenreGenre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
painter, engraver, and lithographer (d. 18421842 in art-Events:*Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.*Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries....
) - September 24 – Antoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis BaryeAntoine-Louis Barye was a French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals.-Biography:Born in Paris, Barye began his career as a goldsmith, like many sculptors of the Romantic Period...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(d. 18751875 in art-Paintings:*Gustave Caillebotte - Floor-scrapers *Jean-Paul Laurens - L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux ...
) - October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the YoungerJoseph Bonomi the YoungerJoseph Bonomi the Younger was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator.-Early life:Bonomi was born in London into a family of architects...
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
sculptor, artist, EgyptologistEgyptologyEgyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
and museumMuseumA museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
curatorCuratorA curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
(d. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - October 24 – David RobertsDavid Roberts (painter)David Roberts RA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region . These, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him...
, ScottishScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
painter (d. 18641864 in art-Works:*Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke*Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix*Édouard Manet**Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges...
) - November 4 – John NeagleJohn NeagleJohn Neagle was a fashionable American painter, primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia.-Biography:Neagle was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
, American portrait painter (d. 18651865 in art-Events:*July 21 - Charles Dodgson photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place*Ford Madox Brown completes his painting Work after thirteen years....
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- Maria MartinMaria MartinMaria Martin Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was a watercolor painter who provided many of the background paintings for John James Audubon on Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America . The U.S...
, American watercolor painter (d. 18631863 in art-Exhibitions:*First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.-Works:* Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus...
) - Antonin MoineAntonin MoineAntonin-Marie Moine was a French romantic sculptor of the first half of the 19th century.-Biography:...
, French romantic sculptor (d. 18491849 in art-Events:* May – First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner, London.* May – John Ruskin...
) - Etienne-Jules RameyEtienne-Jules RameyÉtienne-Jules Ramey called Ramey fils, was a French sculptor.Ramey was born in Paris, The pupil of his father, Claude Ramey , he trained in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, won the Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1815, with the subject, equally classicizing and sentimental, Ulysses recognized by his...
– French sculptor and teacher (d. 18521852 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning*William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia-Births:*April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator...
) - Marcin ZaleskiMarcin ZaleskiMarcin Zaleski was a Polish painter.Zaleski was born in Kraków. Among his works was a series of paintings on the November Uprising in Warsaw, to which he was an eyewitness as well as numerous other paintings of the city. His work is featured in Turkey's Adam Mickiewicz Museum and the Gomel...
, PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
painter (d. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
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- probable – John TernouthJohn TernouthJohn Ternouth was an English sculptor of the early 19th century. His most notable work is one of the four panels at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, depicting the Battle of Copenhagen.-Life:...
, English sculptor (d. 18481848 in art-Events:*John Ruskin marries Effie Gray.*John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Works:*Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Den Danske Landsoldat*Jean-François Millet – The Winnower...
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Deaths
- March 9 – Saverio GandiniSaverio GandiniSaverio Gandini was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods, mainly active in Brescia.Born in Cremona, he became a pupil of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena. As a young man, he traveled to Rome to paint and study for a few years, then returned to Brescia.-References:...
, Italian painter (b. 17291729 in art-Paintings:* Hogarth painted Act III of The Beggar's Opera.* François Lemoyne painted Pygmalion Watching his Statue Come to Life.* Antonio David painted portraits of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his brother Prince Henry....
) - April 2 – Ulrika PaschUlrika PaschUlrika Fredrica Pasch , also known as Ulla Pasch, was a Swedish painter and miniaturist. She was one of few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century...
, Swedish miniaturist painter (b. 17351735 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Boy with a Top-Births:*May - Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter *May 8 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician...
) - August 6 – David Allan, painter of historical subjects (b. 17441744 in art-Births:*February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter *October 27 – Mary Moser, painter *October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter *December 10 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter *date unknown...
) - August 8 – Franz Anton MaulbertschFranz Anton MaulbertschFranz Anton Maulbertsch was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of roccoco painting in the German region....
, Austrian painter (b. 17241724 in art-Births:*June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter *August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses *December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter *date unknown...
) - September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques DurameauLouis Jean-Jacques DurameauLouis-Jacques Durameau was a French painter.-Life:A son of Jacques Durameau and Marie Rocou , he was intended for an engraver by his father and trained in drawing at the studio of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Defernex. He then entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre...
, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de RomePrix de RomeThe Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
(b. 17331733 in art-Births:*January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome *January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter *March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter *March 23 – Josiah Spode, potter -Births:*January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (died...
) - November 2 – Domenico PozziDomenico PozziDomenico Pozzi was a painter of Swiss origin.He was born in Castel San Pietro to Swiss stuccoist Francesco Pozzi . He first trained with his father and Giuseppe Baldrighi, then he entered the Academy of Milan...
, Swiss painter (b. 17451745 in art-Births:* February 2 – John Nichols , English printer and author *March 29 – John Russell, English portrait painter * May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect...
) - date unknown – John Frederick MillerJohn Frederick MillerJohn Frederick Miller was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian Müller . Miller, along with his brother James, produced paintings from the sketches made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage...
, illustrator (b. 17591759 in art-Works:*Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato*Thomas Gainsborough – Self-portrait-Births:*January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture...
) - probable – Francesco BattaglioliFrancesco BattaglioliFrancesco Battaglioli was an Italian painter, known as painter of veduta and cappriccios based on the scenery of Venice and the Venetian mainland .-Biography:...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter of vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
and cappriccioCapriccio (painting)In painting, a capriccio , means especially an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological remains and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, perhaps with staffage of figures. It fits under the more general term of landscape painting...
s (b. 17221722 in art-Births:*March 6 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter *July 16 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and a founding member of the Royal Academy *October 3 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, member of the Tischbein dynasty of German painters...
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