1834 in art

Events from the year 1834 in art.

Events

 * October 16 – Burning of Parliament in London witnessed by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and Augustus Pugin

Paintings

 * Carl Blechen – The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
 * Thomas Cole – The Savage State and The Arcadian or Pastoral State from The Course of Empire
 * Eugène Delacroix – The Women of Algiers
 * Edward Hicks – Peaceable Kingdom
 * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian (Autun Cathedral)
 * Thomas Luny – Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm
 * John Martin – The Deluge
 * J. M. W. Turner
 * The Fountain of Indolence
 * Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

Prints

 * Hiroshige – The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō (publication begins)
 * Hokusai – One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

Sculptures

 * Francis Chantrey – Memorial to Mary Anne Boulton (Great Tew church, Oxfordshire)
 * Antoine-Augustin Préault – The Killing (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres)

Births

 * February 15 – Paul Guigou, French painter (died 1871)
 * February 28 – Léon Bonvin, French painter and watercolorist (died 1866)
 * May 9 – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor (died 1903)
 * July 4 – Christopher Dresser, British designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (died 1904)
 * July 6 – Joseph Boehm, Austrian-born sculptor (died 1890)
 * July 10 – James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter (died 1903)
 * July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (died 1917)
 * August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (died 1904)
 * December 9 – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter (died 1892)
 * date unknown
 * Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (died 1899)
 * Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish-born literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (died 1925)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (born 1764)
 * January 31 – Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1763)
 * February 26 – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography (born 1771)
 * March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann, German-born printer and lithographer (born 1764)
 * March 31 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (born 1760)
 * April 27 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver (born 1755)
 * June 4 – Robert Bowyer, English miniature painter and publisher (born 1758)
 * August 7 – William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver (born 1755)
 * c. August 13 – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born painter in the United States (born 1806)
 * December 3 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (born 1764)
 * December 17 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter (born 1755)
 * December 22 – Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist (born 1755)
 * date unknown
 * Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (born 1771)
 * Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter (born 1757)
 * Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter (born 1745)
 * Ulrika Melin, textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (born 1767)