List of years in Art

[edit] Awards

• Prix de Rome
  • for painting - Antoine Wiertz
  • for sculpture - François Jouffroy

[edit] Works

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji color woodcut, 10 1/8 × 14 15/16 inches (25.7 x 37.9 cm); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Hokusai - The Great Wave off Kanagawa

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Gustave Doré, French illustrator (d. 1883)

• January 23 - Édouard Manet, French painter, (died 1883)
• January 27 - Arthur Hughes, (d. 1915)
• March 4 - Samuel Colman, artist, (died 1920)
• June 1 - Henrietta Ward, English painter (d. 1924)
• December 12 - Mauritz de Haas, painter (d. 1895)

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 - Amos Doolittle, engraver (b. 1752)
• February 22 - Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (b. 1760)
• March 13 - Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire (b. 1777)
• March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic (b. 1749)
• March 30 - Dora Stock, portrait painter (b. 1760)
• March 31 - Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (b. 1784)
• April 13 - Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (b. 1759)
• April 22 - Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (b. 1760)
• October 14 - Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (b. 1760)
• date unknown - Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter (b. 1759)