1845 in art

none 1845 art Events from the year 1845 in art. Events February 7 – At the British Museum in London, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase which takes months to repair.http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/7.htm The Book of Days Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802) Robert Chambers February 7th 23 May 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080705193041/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/7.htm 5 July 2008 live It has since been reconstructed three times. March – Honoré Daumier begins publishing the series of drawings Les Gens de justice ("The Men of Justice") in the satirical Paris magazine Le Charivari. March 15 – The Salon of 1845 opens at the Louvre in Parishttps://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/occurrences/5 April – The National Gallery in London purchases for £630 a portrait of a man with a skull as a work by Hans Holbein the Younger. Its authenticity is rapidly called into question, leading to a public scandal. It is determined in 1993 to have been painted more than a decade after Holbein's death, perhaps by Michiel Coxie.Marjorie E. Wieseman A Man with a Skull https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/research-papers/close-examination/a-man-with-a-skull National Gallery London 2021 2024-12-28 May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845 opens at the National Gallery in London.https://chronicle250.com/1845#catalogue 1845 The Slaughterhouse of Art History The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 26 September 2025 unknown dates Heinrich Hoffmann anonymously publishes Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3–6 Jahren ("Funny Stories and Whimsical Pictures with 15 Beautifully Coloured Panels for Children Aged 3 to 6", later known as Struwwelpeter) in Germany. Brita Sofia Hesselius opens a photography studio in Karlstad, making her the first known Swedish female professional photographer. Works thumb|John Mix Stanley – Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies Francis Grant – Self-Portrait George Hayter – The Christening of the Prince of Wales William Holman Hunt – Little Nell and Her Grandfatherhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/little-nell-and-her-grandfather-71810 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville Charles Landseer – The Eve of the Battle of Edgehill Edwin Landseer – The Cavalier's Petshttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-king-charles-spaniels-the-cavaliers-pets-n00409 Jan August Hendrik Leys – Franz Floris se rendant a une fête Adolph Menzel – The Balcony Room (Das Balkonzimmer) Andrew Morton – The United Service William Mulready – Choosing the Wedding Gown John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Palmerston Nicolaas Pieneman – Portrait of Jan Jacob Rochussen Édouard Pingret – The Arrival of King Louis Philippe at Windsor Castle William Ranney – The Battle of Cowpens Pierre-Henri Révoil completed by Michel Philibert Genod – Pharamond lifted on a shield by the Franks Théodore Rousseau – Hoarfrost Joseph Severn – Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath Clarkson Stanfield – The Capture of the El Gamo John Mix Stanley – Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies January Suchodolski – Assault on Saragossa J. M. W. Turner The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth Sunrise with Sea Monsters Thomas Webster – A Dame's Schoolhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-dames-school-202787 Births January 21 – Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (died 1932)Richard Muther The History of Modern Painting - Volume 3 London J.M. Dent & Co 1907 1195527478 832 July 4 (probable date) – Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (died 1907) October 1 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist (died 1923) October 30 – Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter (died 1916) undated Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter (died 1894) Alina Forsman, Finnish sculptor (died 1899) Deaths January 4 – Léopold Boilly, French painter (born 1761) January 5 – Robert Smirke, English painter (born 1753) January 21 – Samuel Colman, English painter (born 1780)The Oxford Dictionary of Art https://books.google.com/books?id=WYaRX58a0_IC&pg=PA161 978-0-19-860476-1 161 April 20 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (born 1770) May 15 – Kapiton Zelentsov, Russian painter notable for his illustrations for books (born 1790) July 29 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (born 1769) September 29 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (born 1804) October 30 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects (born 1792)Richard Muther The History of Modern Painting https://archive.org/details/historymodernpa09muthgoog 1907 J.M. Dent & Company 409 November 24 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter (born 1787) date unknown Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (born 1765/70) Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin – Russian portraitist and icon-painter (born 1782) probable – Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter (born 1781) References Category:Years of the 19th century in art Category:1840s in art