Events from the year 1843 in art.
Events 8 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London. August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide. The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.
Publications Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable John Ruskin – Modern Painters
Works
Berlin Peace Column Madison Square Fountain, New York City Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett François Bouchot – Napoleon Signing His Abdication at Fontainebleau Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait) Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version) Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection") George Hayter – The House of Commons, 1833 Eugène Lami – The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu Charles Landseer – The Dying Warrior Edwin Landseer – Windsor Castle in Modern Times Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665 Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave Richard Redgrave – Going into Servicehttps://www.speedmuseum.org/art/collections/going-to-service/ David Roberts – The Gate of Metawaley Hendrik Scheffer – Entry of Joan of Arc into Liberated Orleans J. M. W. Turner Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina The Opening of the Wallhalla The Sun of Venice Going to Sea Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino Horace Vernet – Arabs Travelling in the Desert Gustaf Wappers – Souvenirs of Antwerp Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims Franz Xaver Winterhalter Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles) Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)
Births March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923) March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884) April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942) April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900) June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904) July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894) September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915) September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (died 1880) November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933) November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932) date unknown Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897) Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)
Deaths January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776) January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762) Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770) March 19 – Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782) April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786) July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779) July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769) July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784) August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787) October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754) November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756) November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779) date unknown Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777) Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)
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