1847 in art

Events

• 1 May – The Salon of 1847 opens at the Louvre in Paris
• unknown date – William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster in London.

Works

• Edward Armitage – The Battle of Meeanee
• John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
• Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
• Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence
• William Powell Frith – An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight
• Solomon Hart – '
• John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
• Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty
• Robert Huskisson – '
• Charles Lees – The Golfers
• Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
• Clarkson Stanfield – French Troops Fording the Magra
• Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Lola Montez
• Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles
• Alexandre Cabanel –
• Edward Matthew Ward – ''The South Sea Bubble''

Births

• January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet
• February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor
• March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist
• March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter
• April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter
• April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter
• July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter
• September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker
• September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter
• October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
• October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter
• October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter
• November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter
• date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter.

Deaths

• January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist
• January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people
• January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter
• February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures
• February 17 – William Collins, English painter
• March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, French caricaturist
• May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver
• June 9 – Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher
• July 1 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings
• August 17 – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner.
• August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter
• September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter
• September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter
• December 11 – Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life
• December 29 – William Crotch, English musician and painter date unknown
• * Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life
• * Amelia Curran, Irish painter
• * Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter
• * Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period