Events from the year 1847 in art.
Events 1 May – The Salon of 1847 opens at the Louvre in Paris 3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1847 opens at the National Gallery in Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1847#catalogue 22 December – The Vernon Gift is given by the art collector Robert Vernon to the National Gallery in London, forming the basis of the Gallery's collection by British artists unknown date – William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster in London.
Works
Edward Armitage – The Battle of Meeaneehttps://www.rct.uk/collection/407185/the-battle-of-meeanee-17-february-1843 John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence William Powell Frith – An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight Frederick Goodall – The Village Holidayhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/goodall-the-village-holiday-n00450 Solomon Hart – John Milton Visiting Galileo When a Prisoner of the Inquisition John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty Robert Huskisson – The Midsummer Night's Fairies Charles Lees – The Golfershttps://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/68041 Rafaelle Monti - Veiled Vestal David Roberts Edinburgh from the Castlehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/edinburgh-from-the-castle-246369 West Front of Antwerp Cathedralhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/antwerp-cathedral-152372 Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim Clarkson Stanfield – French Troops Fording the Magrahttps://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010067618 Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Lola Montez Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine) Alexandre Cabanel – The Fallen Angel Edward Matthew Ward – The South Sea Bubble George Frederic Watts – Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the DanesStrong, Roy. Painting the Past: The Victorian Painter and British History. Pimlico, 2004. p.113-4
Births January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879) February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933) March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922) March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917) April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928) April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911) July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935) September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915) September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926) October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921) October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919) October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906) November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928) date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).
Deaths January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786) January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780) January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770) February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757) February 17 – William Collins, English painter (born 1788) March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803) May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780) June 9 – Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (born 1761) July 1 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (born 1785) August 17 – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794). August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799) September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776) September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (born 1786) December 11 – Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life (born 1769) December 29 – William Crotch, English musician and painter (born 1775)'The Late Dr. Crotch', in The Times, 6 January 1848, p. 5 date unknown Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776) Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775) Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792) Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757) approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)
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