1843 in art
Events from the year 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
Works
Berlin Peace ColumnMadison Square Fountain, New York City- 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