1849 in art
Encyclopedia
Events
- May – First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodPre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodThe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
: John Everett MillaisJohn Everett MillaisSir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
' Isabella and Holman HuntWilliam Holman HuntWilliam Holman Hunt OM was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Biography:...
's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibitionRoyal Academy summer exhibitionThe Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the summer months of June, July, and August...
and Dante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park CornerHyde Park CornerHyde Park Corner is a place in London, at the south-east corner of Hyde Park. It is a major intersection where Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Grosvenor Place and Constitution Hill converge...
, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. - May – John RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
publishes The Seven Lamps of ArchitectureThe Seven Lamps of ArchitectureThe Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in May 1849, is an extended essay written by the English art critic and theorist John Ruskin. The 'lamps' of the title are Ruskin's principles of architecture, which he later enlarged upon in the three-volume The Stones of Venice. To an extent, they...
.
Births
- January 12 – Jean BéraudJean BéraudJean Béraud was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist noted for his paintings of Parisian life during the Belle Époque.-Biography:...
, painter (d. 19351935 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Nude in the Bathtub*Fernand Léger - Two Sisters*L. S. Lowry - *René Magritte -**The Discovery of Fire**The Portrait*Paul Nash - -Births:*19 August - Victor Ambrus, illustrator....
) - June 2 – Paul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert Besnard was a French painter and printmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel...
, painter (d. 19341934 in art-Works:*Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo*Hans Arp – Human Concretion *Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes -Exhibitions:...
) - December 19 – Henry Clay FrickHenry Clay FrickHenry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel steel manufacturing concern...
, art patron (d. 19191919 in art-Events:* Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus.* Seven and Five Society established in London.-Works:*Evelyn De Morgan - The Gilded Cage*Aleksandra Ekster - City at Night*Max Ernst - Aquis Submersus...
)
Deaths
- January 30 – Peter De WintPeter De WintPeter De Wint was an English landscape painter.De Wint was the son of an English physician of Dutch extraction who had come to England from New York., he was born in Stone, Staffordshire. He moved to London in 1802, and was apprenticed to John Raphael Smith, the mezzotint engraver and portrait...
– 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...
landscapeLandscapeLandscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
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. 17841784 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – painting Oath of the Horatii-Births:*January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter *February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer...
) - March 5 – David ScottDavid Scott (painter)David Scott was a Scottish historical painter.-Life:The brother of William Bell Scott, he was born at Edinburgh, where he attended the Royal High School, and studied art under his father, Robert Scott, the engraver....
, historical painter (b. 18061806 in art-Events:*The Elgin Marbles are brought to Britain from Greece by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.-Works:* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:*Napoleon on his Imperial Throne*Madame Rivière-Births:...
) - November 21 – François Marius GranetFrançois Marius GranetFrançois Marius Granet , French painter, was born in Aix-en-Provence; his father was a small builder.-Biography:...
, painter (b. 17771777 in art-Births:*January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor *January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor *March 9 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire...
) - December 9 – John GloverJohn Glover (artist)John Glover was an English/Australian artist in what is known as the early colonial period of Australian art. In Australia he has been dubbed the father of Australian landscape painting.-Life in Europe:...
, landscape painter (b. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
) - Immanuel AlmImmanuel AlmImmanuel Alm , was a Finnish painter.Alm's father Johan Alm was also a painter. They both worked on religious-themed paintings, including altarpieces such as one at the church in Kaustinen. The National Museum of Finland also has some of his works.-References:* Some of this material was translated...
– Finnish painter of primarily religious-themed works (b. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
) - Edward HicksEdward HicksEdward Hicks was an American folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings.-Early life:...
, folk artist (b. 17801780 in art-Births:*February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people *April 14 – Edward Hicks, folk artist *August 29 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter...
) - Samuel AmslerSamuel AmslerSamuel Amsler , Swiss engraver, was born at Schinznach, in the canton of Aargau. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome, till in 1829 he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the...
, Swiss engraver (b. 17911791 in art-Births:*January 6 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada *February 13 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter *March 20 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter...
) - HokusaiHokusaiwas a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting...
– 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 artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, 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...
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...
and printmaker of the Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
(b. 17601760 in art-Births:*January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter *January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator *March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness...
) - William EttyWilliam EttyWilliam Etty was an English painter, best known for his paintings of nudes.-Beginnings:In accordance with the wishes of his father, Etty served seven years of apprenticeship to a printer in Hull...
– 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...
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...
, especially of nudes (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:...
) - Jacques-Laurent AgasseJacques-Laurent AgasseJacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland.Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals...
– animalAnimalAnimals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...
and landscapeLandscape artLandscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
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. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
) - Moritz Michael DaffingerMoritz Michael DaffingerMoritz Michael Daffinger was an Austrian miniature painter and sculptor. His father was Johann Daffinger....
– AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n miniature painter and sculptor (b. 17901790 in art-Works:* Joseph's Dream by Gaetano Gandolfi* Venus überredet Helena Paris zu erhören by Angelica Kauffmann* El Afilador and Sagrada Familia by Francisco de Goya* The Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus served by the Angels by Giuseppe Cades...
) - Antonin MoineAntonin MoineAntonin-Marie Moine was a French romantic sculptor of the first half of the 19th century.-Biography:...
, French romantic sculptor (b. 17961796 in art-Births:* February 3 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer *May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver * July 2 – Michael Thonet, furniture designer * July 17 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter...
)