1834 in art

Events

• May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1834 opens at Somerset House in London
• October 16 – The destruction by fire of the Houses of Parliament in London, UK, is witnessed by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and Augustus Pugin, all of whose artistic careers will be influenced by the event.

Works

Paintings

• William Allan – The Orphan
• Carl Blechen – The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Countess Howe
• Léon Cogniet – The National Guard of Paris Departs for the Army
• Thomas Cole – The Savage State and The Arcadian or Pastoral State from The Course of Empire
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Forest of Fontainebleau
• Eugène Delacroix
• * The Prisoner of Chillon
• * The Women of Algiers
• François Gérard – Portrait of Louis Philippe I
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Reform Banquet
• Francesco Hayez – Bathsheba at Her Bath
• François Joseph Heim – The Chamber of Deputies Received at the Palais-Royal by the Duke of Orleans
• Edward Hicks – Peaceable Kingdom
• William Hilton – Marc Antony Reading the Will of Caesar
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• * The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian
• * Portrait of Louis-Mathieu Molé
• Edwin Landseer
• * Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time
• * A Highland Breakfast
• * Suspense
• Thomas Luny – Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm
• Daniel Maclise –
• * The Installation of Captain Rock
• * Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth
• John Martin – The Deluge
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Mary Somerville
• David Roberts – Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada
• J. M. W. Turner
• * The Fountain of Indolence
• * Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
• * Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland
• David Wilkie – ''Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage''

Prints

• Hiroshige – The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
• Hokusai – ''One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji''

Sculptures

• Francis Chantrey – Memorial to Mary Anne Boulton
• Antoine-Augustin Préault – ''The Killing''

Births

• February 15 – Paul Guigou, French painter
• February 28 – Léon Bonvin, French painter and watercolorist
• May 9 – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor
• July 4 – Christopher Dresser, British designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style
• July 6 – Joseph Boehm, Austrian-born sculptor
• July 10 – James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter
• July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor
• August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
• December 9 – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter
• date unknown
• *Caspar Buberl, American sculptor
• *Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish-born literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor

Deaths

• January 4 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School
• January 31 – Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter
• February 26 – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography
• March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann, German-born printer and lithographer
• March 31 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor
• April 27 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver
• May 1 – Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter
• June 4 – Robert Bowyer, English miniature painter and publisher
• August 7 – William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver
• c. August 13 – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born painter in the United States
• October 11 – Ulrika Melin, textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art
• December 3 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher
• December 17 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter
• December 22 – Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist date unknown
• * Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter
• * Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter