1843 in art

Events from the year 1843 in art.

Events

 * August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
 * The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.
 * John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.

Works



 * Berlin Peace Column
 * Madison Square Fountain, New York City
 * Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
 * Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait; approximate date)
 * Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
 * William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version)
 * Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection")
 * Sir George Hayter
 * Self-portrait
 * The House of Commons, 1833
 * Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
 * Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
 * J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
 * Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
 * Franz Xaver Winterhalter
 * Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
 * Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

Births

 * March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
 * March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
 * April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942)
 * April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
 * June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
 * July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
 * September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
 * September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
 * November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
 * November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
 * date unknown
 * Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)
 * Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)

Deaths

 * January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)
 * January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)
 * Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
 * April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786)
 * July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779)
 * July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)
 * July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
 * August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787)
 * October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
 * November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756)
 * November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
 * date unknown
 * Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
 * Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)
 * Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)