1847 in art

Events from the year 1847 in art.

Events

1 May – The Salon of 1847 opens at the Louvre in Paris
3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1847 opens at the National Gallery in London^[1]
22 December – The Vernon Gift is given by the art collector Robert Vernon to the National Gallery in London, forming the basis of the Gallery's collection by British artists
unknown date – William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster in London.

Works

Edward Armitage – The Battle of Meeanee^[2]
John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence
William Powell Frith – An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight
Solomon Hart – John Milton Visiting Galileo When a Prisoner of the Inquisition
John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty
Robert Huskisson – The Midsummer Night's Fairies
Charles Lees – The Golfers^[3]
Rafaelle Monti - Veiled Vestal
David Roberts – Edinburgh from the Castle^[4]
Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
Clarkson Stanfield – French Troops Fording the Magra^[5]
Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Lola Montez
Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)
Alexandre Cabanel – The Fallen Angel
Edward Matthew Ward – The South Sea Bubble
George Frederic Watts – Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes^[6]

Births

January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879)
February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933)
March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922)
March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)
April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928)
April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911)
July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935)
September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915)
September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926)
October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921)
October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919)
October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906)
November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928)
date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).

Deaths

January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786)
January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780)
January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770)
February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757)^[7]
February 17 – William Collins, English painter (born 1788)
March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803)
May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780)
June 9 – Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (born 1761)
July 1 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (born 1785)
August 17 – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794).^[8]
August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799)
September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776)
September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (born 1786)
December 11 – Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life (born 1769)
December 29 – William Crotch, English musician and painter (born 1775)^[9]
date unknown
- Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776)
- Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775)
- Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792)
- Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757)
approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)

References

↑ https://chronicle250.com/1847#catalogue
↑ https://www.rct.uk/collection/407185/the-battle-of-meeanee-17-february-1843
↑ https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/68041
↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edinburgh-from-the-castle-246369
↑ https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010067618
↑ Strong, Roy. Painting the Past: The Victorian Painter and British History. Pimlico, 2004. p.113-4
↑ Cincinnati Art Museum; Julie Aronson; Marjorie E. Wieseman (2006). Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Yale University Press. p. 269. ISBN 0-300-11580-6.
↑ Hodgman, V. W. (1967). "Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794–1847)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. pp. 558–559. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
↑ 'The Late Dr. Crotch', in The Times, 6 January 1848, p. 5

[1] ttps://chronicle250.com/1847#catalogue

[2] ttps://www.rct.uk/collection/407185/the-battle-of-meeanee-17-february-1843

[3] ttps://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/68041

[4] ttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edinburgh-from-the-castle-246369

[5] ttps://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010067618

[6] Strong, Roy. Painting the Past: The Victorian Painter and British History. Pimlico, 2004. p.113-4

[7] Cincinnati Art Museum; Julie Aronson; Marjorie E. Wieseman (2006). Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Yale University Press. p. 269. ISBN 0-300-11580-6.

[8] Hodgman, V. W. (1967). "Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794–1847)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. pp. 558–559. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved January 1, 2021.

[9] 'The Late Dr. Crotch', in The Times, 6 January 1848, p. 5

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