1844 in art

Events from the year 1844 in art.

Events

• The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.
• 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).
• July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.

Works

Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge.

Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed

• József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
• Ford Madox Brown – The Bromley Family
• William Collins – Seaford, Sussex
• Charles West Cope – Palpitation
• Gustave Courbet
  • Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
  • The Hammock
• Thomas Couture – The Love of Gold
• Thomas Creswick – Scene on the Tummel, Perthshire
• Honoré Daumier – Les bas bleus ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs)
• Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
• William Powell Frith – John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scots
• Théodore de Gudin – La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684
• Joseph Patrick Haverty – Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper
• Edwin Landseer – Shoeing
• Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
• Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino
• Dominique Papety – The Temptation of Saint Hilarion
• John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Melbourne
• Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux – The Battle of Rivoli
• Francesco Podesti – The Oath of the Anconetani
• Richard Redgrave
  • The Governess
  • The Sempstress
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
• Frederick Richard Say – Portrait of the Earl of Derby
• Clarkson Stanfield
  • The Morning after the Wreck
  • Oude Scheld – Texel Island
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Approach to Venice
  • Ostend
  • Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)
  • Venice, Maria della Salute
  • Venice Quay, Ducal Palace
• Horace Vernet – Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem
• Peter von Hess – Crossing the Berezina River
• William Lindsay Windus - The Black Boy (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)

Births

• February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (died 1909)
• February 26 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)
• April – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919)
• April 14 – Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (died 1910)
• May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", French modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
• May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter (died 1926)
• July 25
  • Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor (died 1916)
  • Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter (died 1892)
• July 31 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (died 1925)
• August 5 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
• September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
• October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, French-born Australian patron of the arts (died 1929)
• October 25 – Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Austrian sculptor (died 1896)
• October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor (died 1917)
• date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (died 1933)

Deaths

• February 21 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761)
• March 6 – Francis Nicholson, English landscape painter (born 1753)
• March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (born 1770)
• May 2 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron 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, American 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)