1842 in art

Events from the year 1842 in art.

Events

 * David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
 * Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
 * Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
 * George Hayter granted a knighthood.
 * William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
 * George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
 * Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.
 * Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London.

Works

 * Thomas Brigstocke – Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother
 * Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau
 * Théodore Chassériau – The Descent from the Cross
 * Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
 * Gustave Courbet – Self-Portrait with a Black Dog
 * Richard Dadd – Come unto these Yellow Sands
 * Johan Christian Dahl
 * Frogner Manor
 * View from Stalheim
 * William Powell Frith – Dolly Varden
 * Benjamin Haydon – Wordsworth on Helvellyn
 * George Hayter – The Marriage of Queen Victoria
 * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
 * Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry
 * Odalisque with Slave
 * Daniel Maclise – The Play-scene in Hamlet
 * Thomas Phillips – Michael Faraday
 * J. M. W. Turner
 * Peace – Burial at Sea
 * Snowstorm – steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead
 * War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
 * Rigi series of watercolours
 * Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert

Births

 * June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
 * October 18 – Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922)
 * November 29 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
 * December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
 * December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)
 * December 31 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)

Deaths

 * March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774)
 * March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755)
 * May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)
 * May 26 – James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802)
 * July 7 – Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759)
 * July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
 * August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
 * September 11 – Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (born 1800)
 * November 17 – John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (born 1774)
 * George Barret, Jr., English landscape painter (born 1767)
 * Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (born 1779)
 * Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (born 1796)