1841 in art
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Events from the year 1841 in art.
Events
- 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).
- 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.[1]
Publications
- Edward Lear – Views in Rome and its Environs (lithographs).[2]
- John Ruskin – The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.
Works
- Amazone zu Pferde (Kiss), Berlin
- Théodore Chassériau – The Toilette of Esther or Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus
- Auguste Couder – Muhammad Ali, Viceroy of Egypt
- Hippolyte Delaroche – Hémicycle in École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – Woman in Front of a Mirror
- William Etty – Female Bathers Surprised by a Swan
- Benjamin Haydon – The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
- John Martin – Pandemonium and The Celestial City and the River of Bliss
- Antoine Wiertz – La Chute des Anges rebelles
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)[3]
- 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)[4]
- October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter (born 1781)
- November 11 – Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, French painter known for his landscapes (born 1757)[5]
- 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)
- 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
- ^ "Painting Inventions". Humanities Web. January 6, 2001. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-231-06955-7.
- ^ "Henri Van Assche". Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006). "Rosaspina, Francesco"[permanent dead link]. Retrieved via Oxford Index 9 July 2017 (subscription required for full access).
- ^ Andreas Andresen (1870). Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler oder Lexicon der Kupferstecher, Maler-Radirer und Formschneider aller Länder und Schulen nach Massgabe ihrer geschätztesten Blätter und Werke. T. O. Weigel. pp. 407.