1850 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*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

*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - "Une Matinée"
*Gustave Courbet - "The Stone-breakers"
*Emmanuel Frémiet - "Wounded Bear" and "Wounded Dog"
*Daniel Huntington - "Feckenham in the Tower"
*Jan August Hendrik Leys - "Service divin en Hollande"
*Adolph von Menzel - "Round Table at Sansouci"
*Sir John Everett Millais - "Christ in the House of His Parents"
*Jean-François Millet - "The Sower"

Births

*January 27 - John Collier, painter (d. 1934)
*February 27 - Henry E. Huntington, art collector (d. 1927)
*March 9 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (d. 1925)
*April 26 - Harry Bates, sculptor (d. 1899)
*November 22 Georg Dehio, art historian (d. 1932)
*November 28 - Robert Koehler, painter (d. 1917)
*December 25 - Florence Griswold, curator (d. 1937)
*December 31 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (d. 1938)
* Alfred Boucher, sculptor (d. 1934)
* Edward John Gregory, painter (d. 1909)
* Per Hasselberg, sculptor (d. 1894)
* George Hitchcock, painter (d. 1913)
* José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (d. 1899)

Deaths

*January 27 - Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (b. 1764)
*April 16 - Madame Marie Tussaud, modeller of waxworks (b. 1761)
*August 13 - Sir Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter (b. 1769)
*October 2 - Sarah Biffen, disabled painter (b. 1784)
* Sir William Allan, historical painter (b. 1782)
* Jean Broc, painter (b. 1771)
* Francis Hervé, painter (b. 1781)
* Richard Wyatt, sculptor (b. 1795)
* Jules Robert Auguste - French painter Impressionist movement (b. 1789)
* Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1801)
* Vicente López y Portaña - Spanish portrait painter (b. 1772)
* Lorenzo Bartolini - Italian sculptor (b. 1777)