1852 in art
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Events from the year 1852 in art.
Events
[edit]- February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg.
- June 1 – The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery.[1]
Works
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- Théodore Chassériau – Le Harem (approximate date)
- Frederic Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia[2]
- Gustave Courbet
- Village Damsels
- A Girl Spinning
- Thomas Couture – Anselm Feuerbach
- Anselm Feuerbach – Hafiz at the Fountain
- Francis Grant – Portrait of Edwin Landseer
- Hiroshige – Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (first publication)
- William Holman Hunt – Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')
- George Inness – A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
- George Jones – Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work
- Frederic Leighton – The Death of Brunelleschi
- John Martin – The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
- John Everett Millais
- François Rude – Joan of Arc (marble)
- John Steell – The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh)
- Thomas Sully -
- Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl – Miners in the Sierras
- Edwin White -
Exhibitions
[edit]- The Society of Arts holds Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography, a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.[3]
Publications
[edit]- Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria
Births
[edit]- April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (died 1911)
- April 12 – Petar Ubavkić, Serbian sculptor and painter (died 1910)
- April 18 – George Clausen, English artist (died 1944)
- May 18 – Gertrude Käsebier, née Stanton, American portrait photographer (died 1934)
- July 27 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (died 1901)
- September 21 – Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (died 1922)
Deaths
[edit]- January 1 – Kapiton Pavlov, Russian portrait painter (born 1791)
- February 10 – Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (born 1783)[4]
- February 24 – John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790)
- March 9 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (born 1779)
- April 5 – William Cuming, Irish portrait painter (born 1769)
- May 30 – George Chinnery, English painter working in China (born 1774)
- June 4 – James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1790)
- June 11 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (born 1799)
- July 12 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (born 1780)
- August 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (born 1801)
- August 14 – Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (born 1762)
- September 14 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator and designer (born 1812)
- September 20 – William Finden, English engraver (born 1787)
- September 23 – John Vanderlyn, American painter in the neoclassical style (born 1775)
- October 17 – Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter (born 1799)
- October 26 – Johann Erdmann Hummel, German painter (born 1769)
- October 29 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (born 1796)
- December 18 – Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (born 1805)
References
[edit]- ^ Figes, Orlando (2019). The Europeans. [London]: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-241-00489-0.
- ^ "Frederic Edwin Church | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
- ^ Stirling, A. J. (2004). "Delamotte, Philip Henry (1821–1889)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37352. Retrieved 2012-01-11. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Samuel Prout (1783-1852)". artuk.org. Retrieved 3 January 2017.