1843 in art

Events

• 8 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London.
• August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
• The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.

Publications

• Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable
• John Ruskin – ''Modern Painters''

Works

• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett
• Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
• Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man
• Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
• William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed'
• Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal
• George Hayter – The House of Commons, 1833
• Eugène Lami – The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu
• Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
• David Roberts – The Gate of Metawaley
• Hendrik Scheffer – Entry of Joan of Arc into Liberated Orleans
• * J. M. W. Turner
• * Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
• * St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina
• * The Opening of the Wallhalla
• * The Sun of Venice Going to Sea
• Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
• Horace Vernet – Arabs Travelling in the Desert
• Gustaf Wappers – Souvenirs of Antwerp
• Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
• * Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn
• * ''Queen Victoria''

Births

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter
• March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter
• April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter
• April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor
• June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia
• July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter
• September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer
• September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter
• November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer date unknown
• * Owon, Korean painter
• * Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist

Deaths

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter
• Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter
• March 19 – Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter
• April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter
• July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian"
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood
• July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor
• October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer
• November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter
• November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver date unknown
• * Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris
• * Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period