1844 in art
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Events from the year 1844 in art.
Events
- The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.[https://www.museocanova.it/the-gypsotheca/?lang=en The Gypsotheca – Museo Canova]
- 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).{{cite web|work=Book of the month |publisher=Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department |url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html |title=William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature |accessdate=July 27, 2011 |date=February 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611071313/https://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html |archivedate=June 11, 2011 }}
- July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.{{cite book|author=Joel J. Orosz|title=Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ5OxZ5knWwC&pg=PA154|date=28 June 2002|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1204-6|pages=154}}
Works
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- József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
- William Collins – Seaford, Sussex
- 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
- Dominique Papety – The Temptation of Saint Hilarion
- John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Melbourne
- Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
- Frederick Richard Say – Portrait of the Earl of Derby
- J. M. W. Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)
- Peter von Hess – Crossing the Berezina River
- 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)Svenskt konstnärslexikon (Swedish Art dictionary) Allhems Förlag, Malmö (1952) {{in lang|sv}}
- Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
- November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779){{cite book|author=National gallery|title=Descriptive and historical catalogue of the pictures in the National gallery: with biographical notices of the deceased painters. By R.N. Wornum|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiveandh01britgoog|year=1869|pages=[https://archive.org/details/descriptiveandh01britgoog/page/n25 19]}}
- 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)