1835 in art

Events

• May 4 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 opens at Somerset House in London.
• June 6 – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• June – Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first stroke, which restricts his ability to paint in oils.
• August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.
• Victor Cousin introduces the expression "L'art pour l'art".
• Marie Tussaud establishes the first permanent Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.
• Salon of 1835 in Paris.

Publications

• George Field – Chromatography; or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting.

Works

• François Bouchot – The Battle of Zurich
• Théodore Chassériau
• *Aline Chassériau
• *Self-portrait
• William Collins – Barmouth Sands
• Léon Cogniet – The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte
• John Constable – The Valley Farm
• Edward William Cooke – Hay Barge off Greenwich
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Venise, La Piazetta
• Caspar David Friedrich
• *The Giant Mountains
• *The Stages of Life
• Christen Købke
• *Frederiksborg Palace in the Evening Light
• *One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle
• Daniel Maclise – The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock
• William Mulready – The Toy Seller
• James Arthur O'Connor – The Poachers
• John Orlando Parry – The Poster Man
• Ary Scheffer – Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil
• J. M. W. Turner
• *The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834
• * A Disaster at Sea
• * Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
• * Line Fishing, Off Hastings
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Wolfgangsee
• Horace Vernet – ''Napoleon at the Battle of Friedland''

Births

• January 3 – Fanny Cornforth, born Sarah Cox, English artists' model
• March 31 – John La Farge, American painter and stained-glass artist
• May 11 – Stefano Bruzzi, Italian painter
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet
• June 23 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born artists' model
• July 2 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter
• December 9 – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor
• date unknown – Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter especially of oriental themes

Deaths

• February 13 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor
• March 20 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter
• April 1 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver
• April 4 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher
• April 5 – Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher
• May 1 – Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist
• May 15 – Pauline Auzou, French painter
• June 21 – Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter
• June 25 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter
• August 20 – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter
• October 23 – Thomas Heaphy, English watercolour and portrait painter
• November 3 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter
• November 17 – Carle Vernet, French painter
• December 1 – Charles Hayter, English painter
• December 2 – James Fittler, English engraver