1849 in art

Events

• March – The Journal of Design and Manufactures is established by Henry Cole in London.
• 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1849 opens at the National Gallery in London
• May
• *First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in London: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Institution for the Free Exhibition of Modern Art's "St. George's Gallery" on Knightsbridge next to Hyde Park Corner.
• *John Ruskin publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
• Salon of 1849

Awards

• Prix de Rome – Gustave Boulanger

Works

• Ivan Aivazovsky – Stormy Sea at Night
• Rosa Bonheur – Ploughing in the Nivernais
• Auguste Couder – The Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1789
• Gustave Courbet – After Dinner at Ornans
• Asher Brown Durand – Kindred Spirits
• Arthur Hughes – Musidora Bathing
• William Holman Hunt
• * The Haunted Manor
• * Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions
• Franz Krüger – Parade in Potsdam in 1817
• John Everett Millais – Isabella
• Andreas Müller – The Christ Child
• John O'Connor – Diorama of the Queen's Visit to Ireland
• Joseph Noel Paton – The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
• John Phillip – Drawing for the Militia
• Clarkson Frederick Stanfield – Tilbury Fort - Wind Against Tide
• J.M.W. Turner – The Wreck Buoy
• Alexander von Kotzebue – ''Capture of Berlin''

Births

• January 12 – Jean Béraud, French painter
• April 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and artist's model
• June 2 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter
• August 12 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter, naturalist and teacher
• November 25 – Mary Fraser Tytler, British craftswoman and designer
• December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, American art collector
• Christopher Whall, English stained-glass artist

Deaths

• January 30 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter
• February 11 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter
• February 15 – Francis Engleheart, English engraver
• March 5 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter
• March 14 – Ellen Sharples, English painter who specialized in portraits and watercolor miniatures
• March 18 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor
• March 29 – Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection
• May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver
• May 10 – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period
• June 8 – Bianca Milesi, Italian writer, painter and patriot
• June 26 – Moses Haughton the younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures
• August 21 – Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor
• August 23 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist
• August 25 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist
• September 7 – Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty
• November 11 – William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver
• November 13 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes
• November 21 – François Marius Granet, French painter
• December 4 – Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet
• December 9 – John Glover, English-born Australian landscape painter
• December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter