1842 in art

Events from the year 1842 in art.

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 opens in London
• David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
• Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
• Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
• George Hayter granted a knighthood.
• William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
• George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
• Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.
• Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London.^[1]

Works

• Thomas Brigstocke – Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother
• Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau
• Théodore Chassériau – The Descent from the Cross
• Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• William Collins – View of Sir David Wilkie's House in Kensington^[2]
• Gustave Courbet – Self-Portrait with a Black Dog
• Richard Dadd – Come unto these Yellow Sands
• Johan Christian Dahl
  • Frogner Manor
  • View from Stalheim
• Charles Lock Eastlake – Hagar Offering Water to Her Son Ishmael in the Desert^[3]
• William Powell Frith
  • Dolly Varden
  • Measuring Heights
• Benjamin Haydon
  • The Black Prince Thanking Lord James Audley for his Gallantry in the Battle of Poitiers
  • Curtius Leaping into the Gulf
  • The Maid of Saragossa
  • Wordsworth on Helvellyn
• Francesco Hayez – Samson and the Lion
• George Hayter – The Marriage of Queen Victoria
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry
  • Odalisque with Slave
  • Portrait of the Duke of Orléans
• Henry Inman – Portrait of Angelica Singleton Van Buren^[4]
• Eugène Isabey – The Town and Port of Dieppe^[5]
• Edwin Landseer – There's No Place Like Home
• Charles Robert Leslie – Queen Katherine and Patience
• Daniel Maclise –
  • The Origin of the Harp
  • The Play Scene in Hamlet
  • Waterfall at St Nighton's Kieve^[6]
• William Mulready – Crossing the Ford
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Michael Faraday
• Richard Redgrave
  • Bad News from Sea^[7]
  • Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper
  • Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Campo Santo, Venice
  • Peace – Burial at Sea
  • Snowstorm – steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead
  • War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
  • Rigi series of watercolours
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert

Births

• June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
• October 18 – Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922)
• November 29 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
• December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
• December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)
• December 31 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)

Deaths

• March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774)
• March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755)^[8]
• May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)
• May 26 – James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802)
• July 7 – Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759)
• July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
• August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
• September 11 – Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (born 1800)
• November 17 – John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (born 1774)
  • George Barret, Jr., English landscape painter (born 1767)
  • Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (born 1779)
  • Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (born 1796)

References

1. ^ Kennedy, Maev (12 September 2010). "Strawberry Hill will open doors to public once again". The Guardian. Archived 16 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
2. ^ https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/92738
3. ^ https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/622735
4. ^ Kloss, William & Bolger, Doreen. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. White House Historical Association, 1992. p.102
5. ^ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/05120000133
6. ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/waterfall-at-st-nightons-kieve-near-tintagel-31119
7. ^ Treuherz, Julian. Hard Times: Social Realism in Victorian Art. Lund Humphries, 1987. p.76
8. ^ May, Gita (2005). Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-30010-872-9.