1844 in art

Events from the year 1844 in art.

Events

 * The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.
 * June – Henry Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera to be commercially published (in London).
 * July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.

Works

 * József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
 * Gustave Courbet
 * Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
 * The Hammock
 * Honoré Daumier – Les bas bleus ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs)
 * Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
 * Théodore de Gudin – La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684
 * Joseph Patrick Haverty – Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper
 * Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
 * Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino
 * Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
 * J. M. W. Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)
 * Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims (United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.)
 * William Lindsay Windus - The Black Boy (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)

Births

 * February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (died 1909)
 * February 26 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)
 * April – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919)
 * April 14 – Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (died 1910)
 * May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", French modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
 * May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter (died 1926)
 * July 25
 * Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor (died 1916)
 * Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter (died 1892)
 * July 31 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (died 1925)
 * August 5 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
 * September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
 * October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, French-born Australian patron of the arts (died 1929)
 * October 25 – Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Austrian sculptor (died 1896)
 * October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor (died 1917)
 * date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (died 1933)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Ferdinand Piloty, German lithographer (born 1786)
 * January 18 – Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter (born 1793)
 * February 21 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761)
 * March 6 – Francis Nicholson, English landscape painter (born 1753)
 * March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (born 1770)
 * May 2 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron art critic (born 1760)
 * May 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783)
 * May 14 – Robert Hills, English painter and etcher (born 1769)
 * July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (born 1785)
 * August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766)
 * August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762)
 * October 14
 * Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772)
 * Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
 * November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)
 * November 18 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter (born 1775)
 * date unknown
 * Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (born 1792)
 * Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780)
 * Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (born 1782)
 * Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born 1764)
 * Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1783)