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1840 art
Events from the year 1840 in art.
Events
March 4 – Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson open their "Daguerreian Parlor" on Broadway (Manhattan), the world's first commercial photography portrait studio.
May 1 – Issue in the United Kingdom of the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, depicting the head of Queen Victoria engraved by Charles Heath and his son Frederick based on a sketch provided by Henry Corbould itself based on a cameo portrait by William Wyon,H. W. Hill The Fight for the Penny Post London Warne 1940 75–79http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860 2007-09-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 17 August 2007 dead together with Mulready stationery. The stamp becomes valid for postage from May 6.Richard Blake The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 Caterham Marden 10
September 30 – Foundation of Nelson's Column laid in London,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-141-02715-0 2006 Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 263–264 0-7126-5616-2
Works
thumb|Liszt at the Piano by Josef Danhauser
thumb|Génie de la Liberté on Colonne de Juillet
Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc – July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris; incorporating Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté and bas-reliefs by Antoine-Louis Barye and others
Thomas Jones Barker – The Bride of Death
François Bouchot – Bonaparte at the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud
John Gadsby Chapman -
The Baptism of Pocahontas
Théodore Chassériau
Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids
Diana Surprised by Actaeon
Portrait of Dominique Lacordaire
Francis Danby – The Deluge
Josef Danhauser – Liszt at the Piano
Eugène Delacroix (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
The Shipwreck of Don Juan
William Etty
Andromeda, Perseus Coming to Her Rescue
The Wrestlers (approximate date)
Francis Grant – Queen Victoria Riding Out
Horatio Greenough – George Washington (statue, Washington, D.C.)
Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV
George Peter Alexander Healy – Portrait of Marshal Soult
Samuel Jackson – View of the Avon at Hotwells
Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury (Chatsworth House, England)
William Linnell -Smuggleriushttps://www.felicecalchi.com/smugglerius/?lang=en Andrea Felice 8 Dec 2012 FeliceCalchi Plaster Casts & Sculptures The True Story of Smugglerius 26 August 2024
Robert Scott Lauder – Portrait of David Roberts
Daniel Maclise
The Banquet Scene in Macbeth
Malvolio and the Countesshttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/maclise-scene-from-twelfth-night-malvolio-and-the-countess-n00423
John Martin – The Eve of the Deluge (British Royal Collection) and The Assuaging of the Waters (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Andrew Morton – The Duke of Wellington with Colonel Gurwood at Apsley House
Edward Villiers Rippingille – Mendicants of the Roman Campagna
David Roberts
Portico of the Great Temple at Baalbechttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/baalbec-ruins-of-the-temple-of-bacchus-97647
A View in Cairohttps://www.rct.uk/collection/403602/a-view-in-cairo
Richard Rothwell – Portrait of Mary Shelleyhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley-157761
John Christian Schetky – Loss of the Royal George
Clarkson Stanfield – A View of Vietri in the Gulf of SalernoClarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) - A View of Vietri in the Gulf of Salerno https://www.rct.uk/collection/404909/a-view-of-vietri-in-the-gulf-of-salerno rct.uk 30 January 2026 en
Armand Toussaint – Persephone (sculpture) (approx. date)
J. M. W. Turner
The Slave Ship, or Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon coming on (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs
Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight
Horace Vernet
Judah and Tamar
The Siege of Antwerp
Theodor von Holst – The WishThe Wish https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-wish-247699 https://web.archive.org/web/20240910074940/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-wish-247699 2024-09-10 2026-06-27 artuk.org en
George Frederic Watts – The Ionides FamilyGeorge Frederic Watts, Alexander Constantine Ionides and Euterpe Ionides with their Children, 1840 https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/objects/alexander-constantine-ionides-and-euterpe-ionides-with-their-children 2026-06-27 Watts Gallery en
David Wilkie
Portrait of Abdülmecid I
Portrait of Queen Victoria
Franz Xaver Winterhalter –
Portrait of the Duchess of Nemours
Portrait of Leopold I of Belgium
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu
Grand Prix de Rome, music: F.E.V. Bazin
Births
February 7 – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, Swedish sculptor (died 1920)
March 10 – Charles Augustus Howell, Portuguese-British art dealer (died 1890)
April 22 – Odilon Redon, French painter and graphic artist (died 1916)
April 28 – Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (died 1913)
May 2 – Philippe Solari, Provençal sculptor (died 1906)
May 28 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (died 1884)
July 8 – Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (died 1925)
August 14 – Briton Rivière, English painter (died 1920)
September 27 – Thomas Nast, German American cartoonist (died 1902)
November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (died 1917)
November 14 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter (died 1926)Claude Monet Biography, Art, Water Lilies, Haystacks, Impression: Sunrise, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Monet britannica.com 7 June 2022 en
December 1 – Marie Bracquemond, née Quivoron, French Impressionist painter (died 1916)
probable – Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Irish American photographer of the American Civil War (died 1882)
Deaths
January 16 – František Tkadlík, Czech painter (born 1786)
February 9 – Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (born 1781)
February 27 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (born 1794)
March 19 – Thomas Daniell, landscape painter (born 1749)
March 30 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (born 1778)
April 7 – William Heath, English satirical engraver (born 1794)Oxford University Press Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&pg=PA536 21 June 2012 OUP USA 978-0-19-992305-2 536
April 10 – Alexander Nasmyth, painter (born 1758)
May 5 – Robert Trewick Bone English painter of sacred, classical and genre scenes (born 1790)
May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, painter (born 1774)
May 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (born 1772)
June 20 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter (born 1759)
July 6 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (born 1763)
July 23 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (born 1798)
August 30 – Jonas Damelis, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (born 1780)
October 28 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, and landscape painter (born 1778)
November 7 – Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (born 1760)
December 11 – Franz Bauer, Austrian microscopist and botanical artist (born 1758)
date unknown
Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (born 1782)
Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (born 1773)
References
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