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1846 in art

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1846 in art

Events from the year 1846 in art.

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Events

  • Edward Lear publishes Illustrated Excursions to Italy and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria.
  • The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner.

    • Works

  • Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Navarino
  • Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape
  • William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (Tate Britain version)
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme – Young Greeks at a Cockfight
  • Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay
  • Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark
  • John Everett Millais – Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (Tate Britain)
  • Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound
  • Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
  • George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca

    • Births

  • March 17 – Kate Greenaway, illustrator (died 1901)
  • May 21 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (died 1920)
  • October 14 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (died 1915)
  • October 28 – Albert Dubois-Pillet, French Neo-impressionist painter (died 1890)
  • November 3 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (died 1933)

    • Deaths

  • January 22 – Louis Baltard, architect and engraver (born 1764)
  • June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, painter and cartoonist (born 1799)
  • June 22 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
  • July 16 – Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (born 1779)
  • August 11 - Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes (born 1769)
  • August 12 – John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer (born 1804)
  • December 12 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (born 1778)
  • date unknown
  • Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)
  • Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)

    • References

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