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- January 26 – Benjamin HaydonBenjamin HaydonBenjamin Robert Haydon was an English historical painter and writer.-Biography:Haydon was born in Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley, rector of Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail...
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
historical painter and writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
(d. 18461846 in art-Works:*Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape*Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay*Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark*Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound*George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca-Births:...
) - April 1 – William MulreadyWilliam MulreadyWilliam Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the Penny Black postage stamp.-Life and family:William Mulready was born in Ennis, County...
, IrishIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
genre painter of rural scenes (d. 18631863 in art-Exhibitions:*First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.-Works:* Alexandre Cabanel - The Birth of Venus...
) - April 16 – Albrecht AdamAlbrecht AdamAlbrecht Adam was a German painter of battles and horses.Born in Nördlingen, he began an apprenticeship as a confectioner and went in 1803 to Nuremberg to begin his training...
, painter (d. 18621862 in art-Works:*Augustus Egg - Travelling Companions*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The Turkish Bath*Édouard Manet**Concert in the Tuileries Gardens **Lola de Valence **Mlle...
) - July 5 – Charles Alfred StothardCharles Alfred StothardCharles Alfred Stothard was an antiquarian draughtsman.Stothard was born in London, the son of the painter, Thomas Stothard. After studying in the schools of the Royal Academy, he began, in 1810, his first historical picture, the Death of Richard II in Pomfret Castle...
, historical draughtsman (d. 18211821 in art-Events:*At the age of eleven, Théodore Chassériau is accepted into the studio of Ingres.-Works:*Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain*John Constable – The Hay Wain-Births:* January 27 - August Becker, painter...
) - July 9 – Rudolph SchadowRudolph SchadowRudolph Schadow was a German sculptor.Born in Rome, he had his father at Berlin for his first master....
, German sculptor (d. 18221822 in art-Works:*Nicéphore Niépce creates first permanent photograph through his heliographic process*Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante *Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus*Louis Hersent – Ruth...
) - August 28 – Ferdinand PilotyFerdinand PilotyFerdinand Piloty was a German Lithographer. He was the father of genre artist Karl von Piloty....
, lithographer (d. 18441844 in art-Events:*July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.*H. Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published .-Works:...
) - October 10 – François-Édouard PicotFrançois-Édouard PicotFrançois-Edouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.-Life:Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de Rome painting scholarship in 1813...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
historic painter (d. 18681868 in art-Works:*Jean-Léon Gérôme—Death of Marshal Ney*Édouard Manet**Luncheon in the Studio **Mme. Manet at the Piano **Portrait d’Emile Zola...
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- Eugenie Margeurite Honoree CharenEugenie Margeurite Honoree CharenEugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen was a French painter.Sometimes known as Mme de Servières, she trained under Lethière and specialized in genre period paintings, and was awarded medals by the Paris Salon of 1808 and 1817 for her work...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter (d. 18241824 in art-Events:*April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London....
) - James FrothinghamJames FrothinghamJames Frothingham was an American portrait painter in Massachusetts and New York.-Life and work:James Frothingham was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He began as a chaise painter in his father's chaise manufactory. In the Boston area, he was a student of Gilbert Stuart...
, American painter (d. 18641864 in art-Works:*Richard Dadd - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke*Henri Fantin-Latour - Homage to Delacroix*Édouard Manet**Les Anges au tombeau du Christ, Le Christ mort aux anges...
) - KunisadaKunisadaUtagawa Kunisada was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese designer of ukiyo-eUkiyo-e' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...
woodblock printsWoodblock printing in JapanWoodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre; however, it was also used very widely for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was only...
(d. 18651865 in art-Events:*July 21 - Charles Dodgson photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place*Ford Madox Brown completes his painting Work after thirteen years....
) - Kim JeonghuiKim JeonghuiKim Jeong-hui was a prominent Korean civil minister, Silhak scholar, and calligrapher. He invented his own style of calligraphy called, "chusache", based on ancient Korean monumental inscriptions.- Further reading:*...
, KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n calligrapherCalligraphyCalligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...
and artist (d. 18561856 in art- Works :*Samuel Colman - Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway*Hiroshige - Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - La Source*John Everett Millais - The Blind Girl*Eugene von Guerard - View of Geelong...
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- Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Charen
Deaths
- January 8 – Johan Edvard MandelbergJohan Edvard MandelbergJohan Edvard Mandelberg , Swedish-born painter living in Denmark, was born at sea during a voyage between Stockholm and Livland, Sweden.- Mandelberg seeks training:...
, SwedishSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
-born painter (b. 17301730 in art-Births:*January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna *April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet *July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter...
) - February 17 – Thomas BeckwithThomas BeckwithThomas Beckwith F.A.S was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary.-Life and work:Beckwith was born at Rothwell, West Yorkshire, the son of a West Riding solicitor, and brother of Josiah Beckwith , attorney and antiquary...
, EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
painter, genealogist and antiquary (b. 17311731 in art-Events:*János Krucsay donates the Krucsay Altar to the Franciscan Church in Nyírbátor-Works:*Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The White Tablecloth*William Hogarth – A Harlot's Progress...
) - March 6 – Charles Germain de Saint AubinCharles Germain de Saint AubinCharles Germain de Saint Aubin was a draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV. Published a classic reference on embroidery, L'Art du Brodeur in 1770...
, draftsmanDrawingDrawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
and embroideryEmbroideryEmbroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins....
designer to King Louis XV of FranceLouis XV of FranceLouis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
(b. 17211721 in art-Births:*January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV *date unknown**Francesco Albotto, Italian painter **Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver -Deaths:...
) - April 12 – Francesco Saverio MergaloFrancesco Saverio MergaloFrancesco Saverio Mergalo was an Italian painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period, active near his natal city of Monteleone di Calabria. He was best known for his portraits.-References:...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
portrait painter (b. 17461746 in art-Paintings:*Canaletto paints Westminster Bridge.*John Smybert paints portrait of William Pepperrell-Births:*March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter *March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker...
) - May 4 – Johann Kaspar FüssliJohann Kaspar FüssliJohann Kaspar Füssli, also written Johann Caspar Fuesslins, was a Swiss painter, entomologist and publisher....
, Swiss painter (b. 17431743 in art-Works:* William Hogarth begins painting his Marriage à-la-mode series* Louis-Michel van Loo completes The Family of Philip V-Births:*March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter...
) - June 21 – George HepplewhiteGeorge HepplewhiteGeorge Hepplewhite was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale...
, English furniture designer (b. 17271727 in art-Events:* Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.-Paintings:* Giovanni Antonio Canal painted The Stonemason's Yard , in Venice ....
?) - October 17 – Johann Ludwig AberliJohann Ludwig AberliJohann Ludwig Aberli was a Swiss painter and etcher.He is primarily known for his landscapes of Switzerland, first etched in contours then painted or colorized. This style is later to be known as the Aberli manner and found many imitators, such as Heinrich Rieter Senior, Franz Niklaus König or...
, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (b. 17231723 in art-Births:*April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller *July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits *date unknown**Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher...
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- Alexander CozensAlexander CozensAlexander Cozens was a British landscape painter in watercolours, a published teacher of painting, and father of John Robert Cozens.-Life:...
, BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
landscape-painter in water-colours and teacher of painting (b. 17171717 in art-Births:*February 17 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor *June 20 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor *August 11 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect, designer, and painter *date unknown...
) - Tilly KettleTilly KettleTilly Kettle was a portrait painter and the first English painter to work in India. He was born in London, the son of a coach painter, in a family that had been members of the Brewers' Company of freemen for five generations...
, portrait painter (b. 17351735 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Boy with a Top-Births:*May - Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter *May 8 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician...
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- Alexander Cozens