1849 in art
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Events from the year 1849 in art.
Events
- May
- First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in London: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Institution for the Free Exhibition of Modern Art's "St. George's Gallery" on Knightsbridge next to Hyde Park Corner.
- John Ruskin publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Awards
- Prix de Rome (for painting) – Gustave Boulanger
Works
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- Ivan Aivazovsky – Stormy Sea at Night
- Rosa Bonheur – Ploughing in the Nivernais
- Gustave Courbet – After Dinner at Ornans
- Asher Brown Durand – Kindred Spirits
- William Holman Hunt – Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions
- John Everett Millais – Isabella
- Andreas Müller – The Christ Child
- John O'Connor – Diorama of the Queen's Visit to Ireland
Births
- January 12 – Jean Béraud, painter (died 1935)
- June 2 – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (died 1934)
- December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, art patron (died 1919)
Deaths
- January 30 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (born 1784)
- February 11 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (born 1764)
- March 5 – David Scott, historical painter (born 1806)
- March 18 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (born 1796)
- May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (born 1791)
- May 10 – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (born 1760)
- June 8 - Bianca Milesi, Italian writer, painter, and patriot (born 1790)
- June 26 – Moses Haughton the younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (born 1773)
- August 21 – Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor (born 1790)
- August 23 – Edward Hicks, folk artist (born 1780)
- August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (born 1797)
- September 7 – Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty (born 1774)
- November 11 – William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver (born 1774)
- November 13 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (born 1787)
- November 21 – François Marius Granet, painter (born 1777)
- December 4 – Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (born 1771)
- December 9 – John Glover, landscape painter (born 1767)
- December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, animal and landscape painter (born 1767)
- date unknown
- Francis Engleheart, English engraver (born 1775)
- Ellen Sharples, English painter who specialized in portraits and watercolor miniatures (born 1769)
- Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection (born 1786)
