1850 in art
Events from the year 1850 in art.
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Events
    
- Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy,[1] Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.
 - 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
    
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J.-F. Millet – The Sower
- Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave
 - Oswald Achenbach – Evening in the Campagna
 - Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen – The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
 - Théodore Chassériau – Othello and Desdemona in Venice
 - Charles Allston Collins – Berengaria's Alarm
 - James Collinson
- Answering the Emigrant's Letter
 - The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
 
 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Une Matinée
 - Gustave Courbet
 - Hippolyte Delaroche – Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
 - William Maw Egley – Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
 - Emmanuel Frémiet
- Wounded Bear
 - Wounded Dog
 
 - Horatio Greenough – The Rescue (statue)
 - Francesco Hayez
- The Meditation (first version)
 - Susanna at her Bath
 
 - John Rogers Herbert
- Children of the Painter
 - Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)
 - Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)
 
 - William Holman Hunt – A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
 - Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower
 - Jan August Hendrik Leys – Divine Service in Holland
 - Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci
 - John Everett Millais
 - Jean-François Millet – The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini
 - Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue
 - Carl Spitzweg – The Bookworm
 - George Frederic Watts – Found Drowned (approximate date)
 
Births
    
- January 1 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1894)
 - January 5 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)
 - January 27 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)
 - February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died 1927)
 - March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1925)
 - April 19 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (died 1909)
 - April 20
- Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (died 1931)
 - Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died 1924)
 
 - April 26 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (died 1899)
 - May 8 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died 1899)
 - July 7 – Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died 1930)
 - September 29 – George Hitchcock, American-born painter en plein air (died 1913)
 - November 22 – Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died 1932)
 - September 23 – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died 1934)
 - November 28 – Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died 1917)
 - December 25 – Florence Griswold, American curator (died 1937)
 - December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)
 
Death
    
- January 16 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)
 - January 20 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)
 - January 22 – William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)
 - January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)
 - February 23 – Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)
 - April 11 – Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)
 - April 15 – Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)
 - April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)
 - May – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)
 - July 22 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)
 - August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)
 - August 27 – Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)
 - October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)
 - November 10 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)
 - December 8 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)
 - date unknown
- Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)
 - Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)
 - François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)
 - Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)
 
 
References
    
- "The Royal Academy Exhibition". The Builder: 255–256. 1 June 1850. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
 
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