1845 in art
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Events
- February 7 – The Portland VasePortland VaseThe Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, currently dated to between AD 5 and AD 25, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards. Since 1810 the vase has been kept almost continuously in the British Museum in London...
is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.
Works
- Jean Auguste Dominique IngresJean Auguste Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
– Portrait of Countess Haussonville - Jan August Hendrik LeysJan August Hendrik LeysJan August Hendrik, Baron Leys , also known as Henri Leys, was a Belgian painter and printmaker.Henri Leys was born and died in Antwerp. He studied with Mathieu Ignace Van Brée at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and then with his brother-in-law Ferdinand De Braekeleer...
– Franz Floris se rendant a une fête - Adolph Menzel – The Balcony Room (Das Balkonzimmer)
Births
- July 4 – Edmonia LewisEdmonia LewisMary Edmonia Lewis was the first African American and Native American woman to gain fame and recognition as a sculptor in the international fine arts world...
, sculptor (d. 1907), birthdate listed on her passport - October 1 – Adolf OberländerAdolf OberländerAdam Adolf Oberländer was a German caricaturist.He was born at Ratisbon, but after 1847 lived in Munich. He studied painting at the Munich Academy under Karl von Piloty, and soon discovered that the true expression of his genius was in the field of caricature and comic drawings...
, caricaturist (d. 19231923 in art-Works:*Max Beckmann - Dance in Baden-Baden*Constantin Brâncuşi - Bird in Space*Felice Casorati - Meriggio *Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even is completed*Auguste Herbin - Bowls Players...
) - October 30 – Antonin MerciéAntonin MerciéMarius Jean Antonin Mercié , was a French sculptor and painter.- Life :Mercié was born in Toulouse. He entered the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23...
, sculptor and painter (d. 19161916 in art-Events:* February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism * May 20 - Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post...
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Deaths
- January 4 – Léopold BoillyLéopold BoillyLouis-Léopold Boilly was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life...
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painter (b. 17611761 in art-Births:*January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher *May – John Opie, historical and portrait painter *July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter...
) - January 5 – Robert SmirkeRobert Smirke (painter)Robert Smirke , was an English painter and illustrator.-Life and work:Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle, the son of a clever but eccentric travelling artist. In his thirteenth year he was apprenticed in London with an heraldic painter, and, at the age of twenty, began to study at the schools...
, painter (b. 17521752 in art-Events:*1 March - Painter Allan Ramsay elopes with and marries, as his second wife, the Jacobite heiress Margaret Lindsay.-Paintings:* François Boucher :**Marie-Louise O'Murphy**Allegory of Music...
) - April 20 – Thomas PhillipsThomas PhillipsThomas Phillips was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the great men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers.-Life and work:...
, 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...
portrait and subject painter (b. 17701770 in art-Works:*Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe-Births:*March 12 – François Gerard, painter *October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter *November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor...
) - July 29 – François Joseph BosioFrançois Joseph BosioBaron François Joseph Bosio was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.-Biography:...
, French sculptor (b. 17691769 in art-Works:*Christopher Hewetson – Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn*Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Self Portrait-Births:*April 3 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood...
) - September 29 – John Scarlett DavisJohn Scarlett DavisJohn Scarlett Davis , or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.-Life and work:...
, English painter (b. 18041804 in art-Events:*Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.-Awards:The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804.* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:...
) - October 30 – Nicolas Toussaint CharletNicolas Toussaint CharletNicolas Toussaint Charlet , French designer and painter, more especially of military subjects, was born in Paris....
, 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...
designer and painter, especially of military subjects (b. 17921792 in art-Events:*François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.-Births:*February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor *June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter...
) - November 24 – Karl Wilhelm WachKarl Wilhelm WachKarl Wilhelm Wach was a German painter.- Life :Wach was born in Berlin in 1787, studied art at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and was a pupil of painter Karl Kretschmar...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painter (b. 17871787 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David's painting Death of Socrates was completed.* Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children was completed.*John Trumbull – Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec.-Births:...
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- Thomas Douglas GuestThomas Douglas GuestThomas Douglas Guest was a British historical- and portrait painter. He studied at the schools of the Royal Academy, and in 1803 sent his first contribution to its exhibitions - a portrait of the sculptor Joseph Wilton...
, British portrait painter (b. 17811781 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms* Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare-Births:*March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter *March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter...
) - Yakov Kolokolnikov-VoroninYakov Kolokolnikov-VoroninYakov Mikaylovich Kolokolnikov-Voronin was a Russian painter who worked as a portraitist and icon-painter in the town of Ostashkov, Tver gubernia.Yakov was born in Ostashkov into a family of artists...
– RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n portraitPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
ist and iconIconAn icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...
-painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(b. 17821782 in art-Births:* March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism * April 7 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey – sculptor * May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours...
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- Thomas Douglas Guest