1852 in art

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Events from the year 1852 in art.

Events

• February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg.

Works

• Théodore Chassériau – Le Harem (approximate date)
• Gustave Courbet
  • Village Damsels
  • A Girl Spinning
• Thomas Couture – Anselm Feuerbach
• Anselm Feuerbach – Hafiz at the Fountain
• Hiroshige – Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (first publication)
• George Jones – Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work
• John Martin – The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Millais – Ophelia

• John Everett Millais
  • A Huguenot
  • Ophelia
• François Rude – Joan of Arc (marble)
• John Steell – The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh)
• Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl – Miners in the Sierras

Exhibitions

• The Society of Arts holds Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography, a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.

Publications

• Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria

Births

• April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (died 1911)
• April 12 – Petar Ubavkić, Serbian sculptor and painter (died 1910)
• July 27 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (died 1901)
• September 21 – Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (died 1922)

Deaths

• February 10 – Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (born 1783)
• February 24 – John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790)
• March 9 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (born 1779)
• May 30 – George Chinnery, English painter working in China (orn 1774)
• June 4 – James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1790)
• June 11 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (born 1799)
• July 12 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (born 1780)
• August 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (born 1801)
• August 14 – Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (born 1762)
• September 14 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (born 1812)
• September 20 – William Finden, English engraver (born 1787)
• September 23 – John Vanderlyn, American neoclassical painter (born 1775)
• October 17 – Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter (born 1799)
• October 26 – Johann Erdmann Hummel, Germain painter (born 1769)
• October 29 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (born 1796)
• December 18 – Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (born 1805)
• date unknown – William Cuming, Irish portrait painter (born 1769)