1850 in art

Events from the year 1850 in art.

Events

 * Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.
 * Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.
 * Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.

Works

 * Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave
 * Oswald Achenbach – Evening in the Campagna
 * Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen – The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
 * Théodore Chassériau – Othello and Desdemona in Venice
 * Charles Allston Collins – Berengaria's Alarm
 * James Collinson
 * Answering the Emigrant's Letter
 * The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
 * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Une Matinée
 * Gustave Courbet
 * A Burial At Ornans
 * The Stone Breakers
 * Hippolyte Delaroche – Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
 * William Maw Egley – Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
 * Emmanuel Frémiet
 * Wounded Bear
 * Wounded Dog
 * J. W. Glass -
 * John Rolfe and Pocahontas
 * Horatio Greenough – The Rescue (statue)
 * Francesco Hayez
 * The Meditation (first version)
 * Susanna at her Bath
 * John Rogers Herbert
 * Children of the Painter
 * Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)
 * Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)
 * William Holman Hunt – A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
 * Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower
 * Jan August Hendrik Leys – Divine Service in Holland
 * Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci
 * John Everett Millais
 * Christ in the House of His Parents
 * Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
 * Jean-François Millet – The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini
 * Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue
 * Carl Spitzweg – The Bookworm
 * George Frederic Watts – Found Drowned (approximate date)

Births

 * January 1 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1894)
 * January 5 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)
 * January 27 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)
 * February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died 1927)
 * March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1925)
 * April 19 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (died 1909)
 * April 20
 * Daniel Chester French, American Aculptor (died 1931)
 * Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died 1924)
 * April 26 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (died 1899)
 * May 8 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died 1899)
 * July 7 – Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died 1930)
 * September 29 – George Hitchcock, American-born painter en plein air (died 1913)
 * November 22 – Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died 1932)
 * September 23 – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died 1934)
 * November 28 – Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died 1917)
 * December 25 – Florence Griswold, American curator (died 1937)
 * December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)

Death

 * January 16 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)
 * January 20 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)
 * January 22 – William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)
 * January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)
 * February 23 – Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)
 * April 11 – Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)
 * April 15 – Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)
 * April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)
 * May – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)
 * July 22 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)
 * August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)
 * August 27 – Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)
 * October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)
 * November 10 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)
 * December 8 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)
 * date unknown
 * Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)
 * Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)
 * François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)
 * Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)