1844 in art

1844 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*July 31 - Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.

Works

*Gustave Courbet
**"Portrait of Juliette Courbet" (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
**"The Hammock"
*J. M. W. Turner - "Rain, Steam and Speed"

Births

*May 21 - Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", modernist primitive painter (d. 1910)
*May 22 - Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter (d. 1926)
*July 25 - Thomas Eakins, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1916)
*August 5 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
*October 22 - Lady Margaret Forrest, patron of the arts (d. 1929)
*October 28 - Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (d. 1917)
* Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
* Mihály Munkácsy, painter (d. 1909)
* William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)

Deaths

*March 24 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (b. 1770)
*May 2 - William Thomas Beckford, art critic (b. 1760)
* Pierre-Antoine Bellange, furniture maker (b. 1760)
* Christian Gobrecht, engraver (b. 1785)
* Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer (b. 1786)
* Andrew Geddes, British painter (b. 1783)
* Augustus Wall Callcott - English landscape painter (b. 1779)
* Giuseppe Bernardino Bison - Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (b. 1762)
* Qian Du - Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1764)


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