- 1842 in art
List of years in Art Events
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Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of theMiddle East and is thought to be suffering fromsunstroke .
*Construction work resumes onCologne Cathedral , after a gap of nearly three centuries.
*William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of theRoyal Society .
*George R. Lewis records the famous carvings atKilpeck church,Herefordshire .Works
Births
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February 6 -Paul Sébillot , painter and author (d. 1918)
*September 6 -Flaxman Charles John Spurrell , photographer (d. 1915)
*November 29 -William Blake Richmond , painter and interior decorator (d. 1921)
* William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (d. 1900)Deaths
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March 30 -Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , painter (b. 1755)
*July 28 -John Sell Cotman - English artist of theNorwich school especiallywatercolour s (b. 1782)
*November 17 - John Varley - English watercolour painter andastrologer (b. 1778)
*Charles Codman ,landscape painter ofPortland, Maine (b. 1800)
*Peter Fendi - Austrianportrait andgenre painter,engraver , andlithographer (b. 1796)
*Alexander Clarot -Austria n painter (b. 1796)
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