1850 in art
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- Francisco GoyaFrancisco GoyaFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...
's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published. - Edouard PingretEdouard PingretEdouard Pingret, [Eduardo], . Edouard Pingret was a French painter and lithographer.He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges...
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Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...
, Paul Baudry. - Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.
Works
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- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Une Matinée
- Gustave CourbetGustave CourbetJean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...
– The Stone-breakers - Emmanuel FrémietEmmanuel FrémietEmmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
– Wounded Bear and Wounded Dog - Daniel HuntingtonDaniel HuntingtonDaniel Huntington , American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from Connecticut...
– Feckenham in the Tower - Jan August Hendrik LeysJan August Hendrik LeysJan August Hendrik, Baron Leys , also known as Henri Leys, was a Belgian painter and printmaker.Henri Leys was born and died in Antwerp. He studied with Mathieu Ignace Van Brée at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and then with his brother-in-law Ferdinand De Braekeleer...
– Service divin en Hollande - Adolph von MenzelAdolph von MenzelAdolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel, was a German artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German artists of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany...
– Round Table at Sansouci - Sir John Everett MillaisJohn Everett MillaisSir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
– Christ in the House of His Parents - Jean-François MilletJean-François MilletJean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...
– The Sower - Ludwig von SchwanthalerLudwig Michael SchwanthalerLudwig Michael Schwanthaler, later ennobled as Ritter von Schwanthaler was a German sculptor.-Biography:Schwanthaler was born in Munich....
(posthumous) – Bavaria statueBavaria statueBavaria is the name given to a monumental, bronze sand-cast 19th-century statue in Munich, southern Germany. It is a female personification of the Bavarian homeland, and by extension its strength and glory....
Births
- January 27 – John CollierJohn Collier (artist)The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI , called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry...
, painter (d. 19341934 in art-Works:*Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo*Hans Arp – Human Concretion *Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes -Exhibitions:...
) - February 27 – Henry E. HuntingtonHenry E. HuntingtonHenry Edwards Huntington was a railroad magnate and collector of art and rare books. Born in Oneonta, New York, Huntington settled in Los Angeles, where he owned the Pacific Electric Railway as well as substantial real estate interests...
, art collector (d. 19271927 in art-Events:*Clarice Cliff introduces her 'Bizarre' pottery decoration.*Aristide Colotte opens his studio in Nancy, where he produces glasswork and carved crystal statues.-Awards:*Archibald Prize: George W...
) - March 9 – Sir Hamo ThornycroftHamo ThornycroftSir William "Hamo" Thornycroft, RA was a British sculptor, responsible for several London landmarks.-Biography:...
, sculptor (d. 19251925 in art-Events:*Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.*In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style...
) - April 26 – Harry BatesHarry Bates (sculptor)Harry Bates A.R.A. , English sculptor, was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Bates was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as A.R.A. and was an active, if intermittent, member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as the New Sculpture...
, sculptor (d. 18991899 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat*Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand*Paul Gauguin - Two Women*William Harnett - Violin*Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife...
) - November 22 Georg DehioGeorg DehioGeorg Gottfried Julius Dehio , was a Baltic German art historian ....
, art historian (d. 19321932 in art-Events:*Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.*Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.*The Wedgwood pottery firm commissions its first designs from Keith Murray.-Paintings:*Frank Brangwyn - British Empire Panels...
) - November 28 – Robert KoehlerRobert KoehlerRobert Koehler was a German-born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.-Biography:...
, painter (d. 19171917 in art-Events:*January - A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.*January 29 - Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.*Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W...
) - December 25 – Florence GriswoldFlorence GriswoldFlorence Ann Griswold was a resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA who became the nucleus of the "Lyme Art Colony" in the early 20th century. Her home has since been made into the Florence Griswold Museum....
, curator (d. 19371937 in art-Events:* May–June - Pablo Picasso paints Guernica, a cubistic mural created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April...
) - December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes ForsterJohn Wycliffe Lowes ForsterJohn Wycliffe Lowes Forster was a Canadian artist specializing in portraits, particularly those relating to Canadian history. Much of his work can be found at the National Gallery of Canada.-Works:-External links:...
, portrait painter (d. 19381938 in art-Events:* Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works.* American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' Grandma Moses.-Paintings:*Rita Angus - Head of a Maori Boy*William Coldstream - Bolton*Arthur Dove - Swing Music...
) - Alfred BoucherAlfred BoucherA French sculptor, Alfred Boucher , mentor to Camille Claudel and friend of Auguste Rodin.Born in Bouy-sur-Ovin , he was the son of a farmhand who became the gardener of the sculptor Chantalle van Zanten, who, after recognizing Boucher's talent, opened his studio to him.He won the Grand Prix du...
, sculptor (d. 19341934 in art-Works:*Eileen Agar – The Autobiography of an Embryo*Hans Arp – Human Concretion *Raoul Dufy – Regatta at Cowes -Exhibitions:...
) - Edward John GregoryEdward John GregoryEdward John Gregory , British painter, born at Southampton, began work at the age of fifteen in the engineers drawing office of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company....
, painter (d. 19091909 in art-Events:*Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.*Pablo Picasso and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Favourite Custom...
) - Per HasselbergPer HasselbergPer Hasselberg was a Swedish sculptor. He was also known as Petter Hasselberg or Petter Åkesson. Little known outside Sweden, his delicate marble nudes have received critical acclaim. Hasselberg grew up in Blekinge, but moved to Paris as a young man, where he studied under François Jouffroy...
, sculptor (d. 18941894 in art-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring *Paul Gauguin - Breton Peasants *Claude Monet - Rouen Cathedral *Edvard Munch...
) - George HitchcockGeorge HitchcockGeorge Hitchcock was an American artist, born in Providence, Rhode Island.Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874...
, painter (d. 19131913 in art-Events:* February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century* The London Group formed and holds its first exhibition...
) - José Ferraz de Almeida JúniorJosé Ferraz de Almeida JúniorJosé Ferraz de Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian painter of the 19th century. He is widely regarded as the most important Brazilian realist painter of the 19th century, and a major inspiration for the modernist painters...
, painter (d. 18991899 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat*Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand*Paul Gauguin - Two Women*William Harnett - Violin*Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife...
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Deaths
- January 27 – Johann Gottfried SchadowJohann Gottfried SchadowJohann Gottfried Schadow was a German sculptor.-Biography:Schadow was born in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor....
, sculptor (b. 17641764 in art-Births:*April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder *April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer *May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter *May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor...
) - April 16 – Madame Marie TussaudMarie TussaudAnna Maria Tussaud was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.- Biography :...
, modeller of waxworks (b. 17611761 in art-Births:*January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher *May – John Opie, historical and portrait painter *July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter...
) - August 13 – Sir Martin Archer SheeMartin Archer SheeSir Martin Archer Shee RA was a British portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.-Biography:...
, portrait painter (b. 17691769 in art-Works:*Christopher Hewetson – Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn*Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Self Portrait-Births:*April 3 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood...
) - October 2 – Sarah BiffenSarah BiffenSarah Biffen , also known as Biffin or Beffin, was a Victorian English painter born with no arms. She was 94 cms tall.-Life and work:...
, disabled painter (b. 17841784 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – painting Oath of the Horatii-Births:*January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter *February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer...
) - Sir William Allan, historical painter (b. 17821782 in art-Births:* March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism * April 7 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey – sculptor * May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours...
) - Jean BrocJean BrocJean Broc was a French Neo-Classical painter. His most famous work, The Death of Hyacinthos, was completed in 1801 and is an oil on canvas. This subject matter is often associated with potentially homoerotic themes. Hyacinthus, a young male beauty, was involved with the god Apollo...
, painter (b. 17711771 in art-Works:* John Singleton Copley – Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston-Births:*March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter...
) - Francis HervéFrancis HervéFrancis Hervé, Esquire was a French born British artist and travel writer.He traveled in the Levant in about 1833. Hervé was commissioned by philhellene British General Richard Church to produce a series of portraits of the leaders of the Greek War of Independence...
, painter (b. 17811781 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms* Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare-Births:*March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter *March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter...
) - Richard WyattRichard WyattRichard James Wyatt was a sculptor born in London, England. He was the grandson of the architect James Wyatt. Wyatt studied in Rome under Canova, and was a fellow student of John Gibson...
, sculptor (b. 17951795 in art-Works:* William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.* Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.-Births:...
) - Jules Robert AugusteJules Robert AugusteJules Robert Auguste was a French painter associated with Romanticism and classicism....
– French painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
ImpressionistImpressionismImpressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
movement (b. 17891789 in art-Events:*James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque".-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons...
) - Fei DanxuFei DanxuFei Danxu ; 1801-1850 was an itinerant Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty.Fei's style name was Zitiao , and his pseudonyms were Xiaolou and Huanxisheng . A later pseudonym was Ouweng . He was a native of Wucheng .Fei began painting when he was very young in Wucheng...
, Chinese painter in Qing DynastyQing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
(b. 18011801 in art-Works:*Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night*Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing-Births:*January 26 – John Quidor, painter *February 1 – Thomas Cole, painter...
) - Vicente López y PortañaVicente López y PortañaVicente López y Portaña was a Spanish painter, considered the best portrait painter of his time.- Early life:...
– SpanishSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
portrait painter (b. 17721772 in art-Events:*King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court.-Works:* John Singleton Copley – Samuel Adams, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston*Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya-Births:...
) - Lorenzo BartoliniLorenzo BartoliniLorenzo Bartolini was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail which led him furthermore in the future, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio...
– ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(b. 17771777 in art-Births:*January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor *January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor *March 9 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire...
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