Events from the year 1852 in art.
Events February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg. May 1 – The Salon of 1852 opens at the Palais-Royal in Paris May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1852 opens at the National Gallery in London June 1 – The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery.
Works
Théodore Chassériau – Le Harem (approximate date) Frederic Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia Edward William Cooke – San Giorgio Maggiore and the Salute, Venice Gustave Courbet Village Damsels A Girl Spinning Thomas Couture – Anselm Feuerbach Eugène Delacroix – Marphise Anselm Feuerbach – Hafiz at the Fountain William Powell Frith The Bride of Lammermoor The Rejected Poethttps://victorianweb.org/painting/frith/paintings/10.html Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Idyllhttps://musees-occitanie.fr/oeuvre/daphnis-et-chloe/ Francis Grant Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli Portrait of Sir Edwin Landseer Portrait of the Duke of PortlandWills, Catherine. High Society: The Life and Art of Sir Francis Grant, 1803–1878. National Galleries of Scotland, 2003. p.92 Hiroshige – Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (first publication) William Holman Hunt – Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep') George Inness – A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct George Jones – Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work Alexander Kotzebue – The Battle of Zorndorf Frederic Leighton – The Death of Brunelleschihttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-death-of-brunelleschi-180198 Charles Robert Leslie – Portrait of John Everett Millais John Martin – The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Robert Braithwaite Martineau – Kit's Writing Lessonhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martineau-kits-writing-lesson-t00011
John Everett Millais A Huguenot Ophelia David Roberts – The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition François Rude – Joan of Arc (marble) Henry Courtney Selous – The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria Clarkson Stanfield – The Harbour of La Rochelle John Steell – The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh) Thomas Sully - Pocahontas Thomas Webster – A Letter from the Colonieshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-letter-from-the-colonies-202789 Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl – Miners in the Sierras Edwin White - Pocahontas Informing John Smith of a Conspiracy of the Indians Franz Xaver Winterhalter – The Cousins
Exhibitions The Society of Arts holds Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography, a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.
Publications Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria
Births April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (died 1911) April 12 – Petar Ubavkić, Serbian sculptor and painter (died 1910) April 18 – George Clausen, English artist (died 1944) May 18 – Gertrude Käsebier, née Stanton, American portrait photographer (died 1934) July 27 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (died 1901) September 21 – Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (died 1922)
Deaths January 1 – Kapiton Pavlov, Russian portrait painter (born 1791) February 10 – Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (born 1783) February 24 – John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790) March 9 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (born 1779) April 5 – William Cuming, Irish portrait painter (born 1769) May 30 – George Chinnery, English painter working in China (born 1774) June 4 – James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1790) June 11 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (born 1799) July 12 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (born 1780) August 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (born 1801) August 14 – Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (born 1762) September 14 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator and designer (born 1812) September 20 – William Finden, English engraver (born 1787) September 23 – John Vanderlyn, American painter in the neoclassical style (born 1775) October 17 – Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter (born 1799) October 26 – Johann Erdmann Hummel, German painter (born 1769) October 29 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (born 1796) December 18 – Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (born 1805)
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