1850 in art

Events

Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, MillaisChrist in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.

Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.

Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.

Awards

Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.

Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:

Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:

Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.

Works

Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave

Oswald Achenbach – Evening in the Campagna

Théodore Chassériau – Othello and Desdemona in Venice

Charles Allston Collins – Berengaria's Alarm

James Collinson

Answering the Emigrant's Letter

The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Une Matinée

Gustave Courbet

A Burial At Ornans

The Stone Breakers

Hippolyte Delaroche – Bonaparte Crossing the Alps

William Maw Egley – Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)

Emmanuel Frémiet

Wounded Bear

Wounded Dog

Horatio Greenough – The Rescue (statue)

Francesco Hayez

The Meditation (first version)

Susanna at her Bath

John Rogers Herbert

Children of the Painter

Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)

Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)

William Holman Hunt – A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids

Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower

Jan August Hendrik Leys – Divine Service in Holland

Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci

John Everett Millais

Christ in the House of His Parents

Ferdinand Lured by Ariel

Jean-François Millet – The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini

Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue

Carl Spitzweg – The Bookworm

George Frederic Watts – Found Drowned (approximate date)

Births

January 1 – Per Hasselberg, sculptor (died 1894)

January 5 – Theodoor Verstraete, rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)

January 27 – John Collier, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)

February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, art collector (died 1927)

March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (died 1925)

April 19 – Edward John Gregory, painter (died 1909)

April 20 – Jean-François Raffaëlli, realist painter (died 1924)

April 26 – Harry Bates, sculptor (died 1899)

May 8 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (died 1899)

September 23 – Alfred Boucher, sculptor (died 1934)

November 22 – Georg Dehio, art historian (died 1932)

November 28 – Robert Koehler, painter (died 1917)

December 25 – Florence Griswold, curator (died 1937)

December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (died 1938)

date unknown – George Hitchcock, painter (died 1913)

Deaths

January 16 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)

January 20 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)

January 22 – William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)

January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)

February 23 – Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)

April 11 – Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)

April 15 – Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)

April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)

May – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)

July 22 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)

August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)

August 27 – Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)

October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)

November 10 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)

December 8 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)

date unknown

Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)

Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)

François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)

Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)