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Events from the year 1846 in art.

Events

  • 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1846 opens at the National Gallery in London
  • Edward Lear publishes Illustrated Excursions to Italy and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria.
  • The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner.

Works

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  • Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Navarino
  • Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape
  • William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed (Tate Britain version)
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme – Young Greeks at a Cockfight
  • Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay
  • Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark
  • Emanuel Leutze – The Courtship of Anne Boleyn
  • John Everett Millais – Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (Tate Britain)
  • Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound
  • Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
  • Henry William Pickersgill – Portrait of Robert Vernon
  • David Roberts – A Street in Cairo
  • Eliseo Sala – Pia de' Tolomei
  • Henri Frédéric Schopin – The Divorce of the Empress Josephine
  • Clarkson Stanfield
  • The Battle of Roveredo
  • On the Dogger Bank
  • The Royal Yacht Passing St Michael's Mount
  • Giovanni Strazza – Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert (completed).
  • J.M.W. Turner
  • Queen Mab's Cave
  • Whalers Entangled in Flaw Ice
  • Horace Vernet – Louis Philippe and His Sons
  • Peter von Hess – The Battle of Smolensk
  • Edward Matthew Ward
  • The Disgrace of Lord Clarendon
  • Portrait of Daniel Maclise
  • George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca
  • Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales

Births

  • March 17 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (died 1901)
  • May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (died 1920)
  • May 21 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (died 1920)
  • October 14 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (died 1915)
  • October 28 – Albert Dubois-Pillet, French Neo-impressionist painter (died 1890)
  • November 3 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (died 1933)
  • December 9 – John Macallan Swan, English painter and sculptor (died 1910)

Deaths

  • January 22 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, French architect and engraver (born 1764)
  • April 16 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (born 1778)
  • June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss painter and cartoonist (born 1799)
  • June 22 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
  • July 16 – Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (born 1779)
  • August 11 – Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes (born 1769)
  • August 12 – John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American landscape painter and lithographer (born 1804)
  • October 5 – Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)
  • December 12 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, French artist and explorer (born 1778)
  • date unknown – Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)

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