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1844 art
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Events from the year 1844 in art.
Events
The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.https://www.museocanova.it/the-gypsotheca/?lang=en The Gypsotheca – Museo Canova August 3, 2020 June 24, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201308/https://www.museocanova.it/the-gypsotheca/?lang=en dead
June – Henry Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera to be commercially published (in London).Book of the month Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature July 27, 2011 February 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110611071313/https://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html June 11, 2011
July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.Joel J. Orosz Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ5OxZ5knWwC&pg=PA154 28 June 2002 University of Alabama Press 978-0-8173-1204-6 154
Works
thumb|Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge.
thumb|Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed
József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
Ford Madox Brown – The Bromley Familyhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bromley-family-205496/search/2026--date-from:1844--date-to:1844--work_type:painting/page/8
William Collins – Seaford, Sussexhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/seaford-sussex-31074
Charles West Cope – Palpitationhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/palpitation-30994
Gustave Courbet
Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
The Hammock
Thomas Couture – The Love of Goldhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/05620000057
Thomas Creswick – Scene on the Tummel, Perthshirehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/scene-on-the-tummel-perthshire-31056
Honoré Daumier – Les bas bleus ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs)
Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
William Dyce – Joash Shooting the Arrow of Deliverancehttps://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/HK-1841/joas-schiesst-den-pfeil-der-erloesung?context=default&position=0&term=William%20Dyce
William Powell Frith – John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scotshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/john-knox-reproving-mary-queen-of-scots-71794/view_as/grid/search/2026--date-from:1844--date-to:1844--work_type:painting/page/9
Théodore de Gudin – La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684
Joseph Patrick Haverty – Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper
Edwin Landseer – Shoeinghttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-shoeing-n00606
Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino
Dominique Papety – The Temptation of Saint Hilarionhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-temptation-of-saint-hilarion-209653
John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Melbourne
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux – The Battle of Rivolihttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005904
Francesco Podesti – The Oath of the Anconetanihttps://www.regione.marche.it/Regione-Utile/Cultura/Catalogo-beni-culturali/RicercaCatalogoBeni/ids/104796/Giuramento-degli-Anconetani
Richard Redgrave
The Governesshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-governess-30890
The Sempstresshttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/redgrave-the-sempstress-t14166
Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
Frederick Richard Say – Portrait of the Earl of Derbyhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01808
Clarkson Stanfield
The Morning after the Wreckhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-morning-after-the-wreck-71270
Oude Scheld – Texel Islandhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stanfield-oude-scheld-texel-island-looking-towards-nieuwe-diep-and-the-zuider-zee-n00404
J. M. W. Turner
Approach to Venicehttps://www.nga.gov/artworks/117-approach-venice
Ostendhttps://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/5RGQK5pxz3
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)Gage, John. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed. London, 1972. pp. 19–22. Cited in Hugh Honour. Romanticism. New York, 1979.
Venice, Maria della Salutehttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-maria-della-salute-n00539
Venice Quay, Ducal Palacehttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-quay-ducal-palace-n00540
Horace Vernet – Jeremiah on the Ruins of JerusalemCooper, Barbara T. & Donaldson-Evans Mary (ed.) Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Brill, 2023. p.135
Peter von Hess – Crossing the Berezina RiverNedd, Andrew M. History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian 'Patriotic War', 1812-1914. Springer Nature, 2024. p.43-45
William Lindsay Windus - The Black Boy (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)Ferguson Donna https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/21/liverpool-museum-appeals-information-subject-the-black-boy https://web.archive.org/web/20240321120451/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/21/liverpool-museum-appeals-information-subject-the-black-boy Liverpool museum appeals for information on subject of The Black Boy 21 March 2024 The Guardian 21 March 2024 21 March 2024
Births
February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (died 1909)
February 26 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)
March 10 - Marie Spartali Stillman, English model and painter (died 1927)
April – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919)
April 14 – Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (died 1910)
May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", French modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter (died 1926)
July 25
Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor (died 1916)
Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter (died 1892)
July 31 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (died 1925)
August 5 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, French-born Australian patron of the arts (died 1929)
October 25 – Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Austrian sculptor (died 1896)
October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor (died 1917)
date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (died 1933)
Deaths
February 21 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761)
March 6 – Francis Nicholson, English landscape painter (born 1753)Albert Nicholson Nicholson, Francis (1753-1844) Nicholson, Francis (1753–1844) 41 14–15
March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (born 1770)Just Mathias Thiele Bertel Thorvaldsen Mordaunt Roger Barnard 1865 The Life of Thorvaldsen Chapman and Hall 8
May 2 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron art critic (born 1760)
May 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783)
May 14 – Robert Hills, English painter and etcher (born 1769)
July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (born 1785)
August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766)
August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762)
October 14
Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772)Svenskt konstnärslexikon (Swedish Art dictionary) Allhems Förlag, Malmö (1952) sv
Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)National gallery Descriptive and historical catalogue of the pictures in the National gallery: with biographical notices of the deceased painters. By R.N. Wornum https://archive.org/details/descriptiveandh01britgoog 1869 19
November 18 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter (born 1775)
date unknown
Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (born 1792)
Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780)
Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (born 1782)
Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born 1764)
Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1783)
References
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