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1841 art
Events from the year 1841 in art.
Events
May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841 opens in London
June 1 – Scottish painter and engraver Sir David Wilkie, returning to Britain from a voyage to the East, dies on board a ship out of Gibraltar and is buried at sea in the Bay of Gibraltar, an event commemorated in J. M. W. Turner's painting Peace - Burial at Sea (1842).
Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London erected to the design of Charles Barry. The planned equestrian statue of King William IV being abandoned due to lack of funds, the plinth remains empty until 1999.
George Hayter appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to Queen Victoria.
American artist John G. Rand invents the collapsible zinc oil paint tube, marketed by Winsor & Newton of London.Painting Inventions http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=980 Humanities Web 2001-01-06 2011-08-07
Salon of 1841 in Paris
Publications
Edward Lear – Views in Rome and its Environs (lithographs).Vidya Dehejia Edward Lear Allen Staley Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875 https://books.google.com/books?id=63-VOaJDKPkC&pg=PA109 1989 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-06955-7 109
John Ruskin – The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.
Works
thumb|160px|Eckersberg – A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror
thumb|A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert by Edwin Landseer
Amazone zu Pferde (Kiss), Berlin
Thomas Birch – An American Ship in Distress
Théodore Chassériau – The Toilette of Esther or Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus
Thomas Cole – The Fountain of Vaucluse
Auguste Couder – Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt
Francis Danby – The Enchanted Castle
Hippolyte Delaroche – Hémicycle in École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror
William Etty
Female Bathers Surprised by a Swan
The Repentant Prodigal's Return to His Father
Richard Evans – Portrait of George Bradshaw
Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
Francesco Hayez – Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni
Charles Landseer – The Temptation of Andrew Marvellhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-temptation-of-andrew-marvell-32356
Edwin Landseer – A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert
Emanuel Leutze –Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca
Daniel Maclise – The Sleeping Beauty
John Martin
The Celestial City and the River of Bliss
Pandemoniumhttps://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010067390 Le Pandemonium, 1841 1841 2026-10-09
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux – The Defence of Mazagran
David Roberts
The Fountain on the Prado, Madrid
The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec
Pilgrims Approaching Jerusalemhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/pilgrims-approaching-jerusalem-12866
The Temple of Dendera
A View of Toledo and the River Tagus
William Salter – The Waterloo Banquet
Clarkson Stanfield – The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy
J.M. W. Turner
The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgiohttps://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/14347/view-of-venice-the-ducal-palace-dogana-and-part-of-san-gio View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio allenartcollection.oberlin.edu 2026-10-09
Glaucus and Scyllahttps://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-196611
Schloss Rosenau
Edward Matthew Ward – Napoleon in the Prison of Nice in 1794
Thomas Webster – The Boy with Many Friendshttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-boy-with-many-friends-164580
Antoine Wiertz – La Chute des Anges rebelles
David Wilkie – Portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Portrait of Louis Philippe I
Portrait of Louise of Orléans
Births
January 14 – Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (died 1895)
February 4 – Charles Édouard Delort, French academic painter (died 1895)
February 16 – Armand Guillaumin, Impressionist painter (died 1927)
February 25 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Impressionist painter (died 1919)
September 4 – Albert Joseph Moore, painter (died 1893)
December 6 – Frédéric Bazille, Impressionist painter (died 1870)
Deaths
January 7 – James Arthur O'Connor, Irish landscape painter (born 1792)
January 12 – Alexander Day, English miniature painter and art dealer (born 1772)
February 14 – Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin, French chemist, medallist, politician, and man of letters (born 1757)
April 10 – Henri Van Assche, Belgian painter (born 1774)Henri Van Assche https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/2748 Netherlands Institute for Art History April 30, 2020
June 1 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter (born 1785)
July 27 (O.S. July 15) – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and painter (born 1814) (in a duel)
August 15 – Elizabeth Gould, illustrator (born 1804)
September 2 – Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver (born 1762)Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006). "Rosaspina, Francesco"May 2022 InternetArchiveBot yes . Retrieved via Oxford Index 9 July 2017 (subscription required for full access).
October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter (born 1781)
November 11 – Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, French painter known for his landscapes (born 1757)Andreas Andresen Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der Kupferstecher, Maler-Radirer und Formschneider aller Länder und Schulen nach Massgabe ihrer geschätztesten Blätter und Werke https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__pJAAAAAYAAJ 1870 T. O. Weigel 407
November 17 – Cladius Detlev Fritzsch, also known as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter (born 1765)
November 23 – Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (born 1793)
November 25 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, sculptor (born 1781)
date unknown – Gustaf Erik Hedman, Finnish painter (born 1777)
probable – José Gil de Castro, Afro-Peruvian painter especially of portraits of Peru's heroes (born 1785)
References
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