1845 in art
Events from the year 1845 in art.
Events
- February 7 – At the British Museum in London, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase which takes months to repair. It has since been reconstructed three times.
- March – Honoré Daumier begins publishing the series of drawings Les Gens de justice in the satirical Paris magazine Le Charivari.
- April – The National Gallery in London purchases for £630 a portrait of a man with a skull as a work by Hans Holbein the Younger. Its authenticity is rapidly called into question, leading to a public scandal. It is determined in 1993 to have been painted more than a decade after Holbein's death, perhaps by Michiel Coxie.
- May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845 opens at the National Gallery in London.
- unknown dates
- *Heinrich Hoffmann anonymously publishes Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3–6 Jahren in Germany.
- *Brita Sofia Hesselius opens a photography studio in Karlstad, making her the first known Swedish female professional photographer.
Works
- Francis Grant – Self-Portrait
- George Hayter - The Christening of the Prince of Wales
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville
- Charles Landseer – The Eve of the Battle of Edgehill
- Jan August Hendrik Leys – Franz Floris se rendant a une fête
- Adolph Menzel – The Balcony Room
- Andrew Morton – The United Service
- William Mulready – Choosing [the Wedding Gown]
- John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Palmerston
- Nicolaas Pieneman – Portrait of Jan Jacob Rochussen
- Édouard Pingret – The Arrival of [King Louis Philippe at Windsor Castle]
- William Ranney – The Battle of Cowpens
- Pierre-Henri Révoil completed by Michel Philibert Genod – Pharamond lifted on a shield by the Franks
- Théodore Rousseau – Hoarfrost
- Joseph Severn – Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath
- Clarkson Stanfield – The Capture of the El Gamo
- John Mix Stanley – Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies
- January Suchodolski – Assault on Saragossa
- J. M. W. Turner
- * The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth
- * ''Sunrise with Sea Monsters''
Births
- January 21 – Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
- July 4 – Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor
- October 1 – Adolf Oberländer, German caricaturist
- October 30 – Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter
- undated
- *Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter
- *Alina Forsman, Finnish sculptor
Deaths
- January 4 – Léopold Boilly, French painter
- January 5 – Robert Smirke, English painter
- January 21 – Samuel Colman, English painter
- April 20 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter
- May 15 – Kapiton Zelentsov, Russian painter notable for his illustrations for books
- July 29 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor
- September 29 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter
- October 30 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects
- November 24 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter
- date unknown
- *Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator
- *Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin – Russian portraitist and icon-painter
- probable – Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter