1835 in art

Events

June 6 – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is received into the Roman Catholic Church.

June – Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first stroke, which restricts his ability to paint in oils.

August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.

Victor Cousin introduces the expression "L'art pour l'art" ("Art for art's sake").

Marie Tussaud establishes the first permanent Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.

Works

Théodore Chassériau

Aline Chassériau

Self-portrait

Léon Cogniet – The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte (ceiling at Musée du Louvre, Paris)

John Constable – The Valley Farm

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Hagar in the Desert

Venise, La Piazetta

William Etty – Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

Caspar David Friedrich

The Giant Mountains

The Stages of Life

Willow Bush under a Setting Sun

Christen Købke

Frederiksborg Palace in the Evening Light

One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle

Roof Ridge of Frederiksborg Castle

John Linnell – Christ's Appearance to the Two Disciples Journeying to Emmaus

James Arthur O'Connor – The Poachers

John Orlando Parry – The Poster Man

Ary Scheffer – Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (original version)

J. M. W. Turner

The Bright-Stone of Honour (Ehrenbreitstein) and Tomb of Marceau, from Byron's "Childe Harold"

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Wolfgangsee

David Wilkie – Columbus in the Convent at La Rabida

Births

March 31 – John La Farge, American painter and stained-glass artist (died 1910)

May 11 – Stefano Bruzzi, Italian painter (died 1911)

June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (died 1868)

July 2 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (died 1921)

December 9 – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (died 1917)

date unknown – Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter especially of oriental themes (died 1884)

Deaths

February 13 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor (born 1792)

March 20 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (born 1794)

April 1 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (born 1771)

April 4 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (born 1778)

April 5 – Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher (born 1754)

May 15 – Pauline Auzou, French painter (born 1775)

June 21 – Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (born 1762)

June 25 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (born 1771)

August 20 - Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (born 1758)

November 3 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (born 1764)

November 17 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, painter (born 1758)

December 1 – Charles Hayter, English painter (born 1761)

December 2 – James Fittler, English engraver (born 1758)

date unknown

Thomas Heaphy, English water-colour and portrait painter (born 1775)

Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (born 1768)