1847 in art

Events from the year 1847 in art.

Events

 * Salon indépendent established in Paris.
 * William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster.

Works

 * John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
 * Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
 * Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence
 * Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight
 * Solomon Hart – Milton Visiting Galileo when a Prisoner of the Inquisition
 * John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
 * Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty
 * Robert Huskisson – The Midsummer Night's Fairies
 * Charles Lees – The Golfers
 * Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
 * Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)
 * Alexandre Cabanel – The Fallen Angel

Births

 * January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879)
 * February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933)
 * March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922)
 * March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)
 * April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928)
 * April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911)
 * July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935)
 * September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915)
 * September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926)
 * October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921)
 * October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919)
 * October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906)
 * November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928)
 * date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).

Deaths

 * January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786)
 * January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780)
 * January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770)
 * February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757)
 * February 17 – William Collins, English painter (born 1788)
 * March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803)
 * May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780)
 * June 9 – Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (born 1761)
 * July 1 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (born 1785)
 * August 17 – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794)
 * August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799)
 * September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776)
 * September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (born 1786)
 * December 11 – Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life (born 1769)
 * December 29 – William Crotch, English musician and painter (born 1775)
 * date unknown
 * Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776)
 * Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775)
 * Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792)
 * Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757)
 * approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)