1851 in art

Events from the year 1851 in art.

Events

• March – English sculptor Frederick Scott Archer makes public the wet plate collodion photographic process.^[1]
• electrotype of John Evan Thomas' sculpture Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent, and a demonstration by makers of Bristol blue glass
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• Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo opens in Brescia, Italy.
• Missions Héliographiques established by Prosper Mérimée to photograph historical French architecture.

Works

• Edward Hodges Baily – Peel Memorial, Bury (sculpture)
• The Great Exhibition
  • Andromeda
  • The Eagle Slayer (cast iron)
  • Una and the Lion
• Charles Allston Collins – Convent Thoughts
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – La Danse des Nymphes
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer
• Francesco Hayez
  • Antonietta Tarsis Basilico
  • Matilde Juva-Branca
  • The Meditation (second version)
• William Holman Hunt – The Hireling Shepherd
• Sir Edwin Landseer
  • Monarch of the Glen
  • Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Frederick Richard Lee – Shattered Oak in Bedfordshire
• Washington Crossing the Delaware
• Daniel Maclise – Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster
• daguerrotype)^[2]
• John Everett Millais
  • Mariana
  • The Return of the Dove to the Ark
• Karl Heinrich Möller – Athena Arms the Warrior (sculpture, Berlin)
• Soma Orlai Petrich – The Corpse of Louis II
• Richard Redgrave – The Outcast
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies him her Salutation
• Théophile Schuler – The Chariot of Death (painting, begun in 1848)
• Rebecca Solomon – The Governess
• John Thomas – Charity (sculpture)
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter – The First of May, 1851

Publications

• John Leech – The Comic History of Rome
• Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Albania
• Pre-Raphaelitism

Births

• January 17 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (died 1928)
• January 28 – Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (died 1913)
• February 3 – Wilhelm Trübner, German realist painter (died 1917)
• April 19 – Đorđe Krstić, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters (along with Uroš Predić and Paja Jovanović) (died 1907)
• July 23 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
• October 2 – Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (died 1929)
• October 13 – Charles Sprague Pearce, American painter (died 1914)
• November 21 – Leslie Ward ("Spy"), English caricaturist (died 1922)
• December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze, Dutch portrait painter (died 1918)

Deaths

• January 9
  • Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits (born 1789)
  • Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter and draughtsman (born 1778)
• January 27 – John James Audubon, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (born 1785)
• March 10 – Abraham Constantin, Swiss enamel painter (born 1785)
• April 7 – Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (born 1785)
• April 8 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (born 1771)
• July 10 – Louis Daguerre, French inventor of daguerreotype photography (born 1787)
• July 11 – Benjamin Duterrau, French painter and engraver (born 1768)
• October 25 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (born 1779)
• engraver at the Royal Mint (born 1795
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• November – Willis Buell, American politician and portrait painter (born 1790)
• December 6 – John Buckler, English draughtsman and engraver (born 1770)
• printmaker (born 1775
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