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}}

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