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[edit] Works

• Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning
• William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World
• Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia

[edit] Births

• April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
• July 27 - Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (d. 1901)

[edit] Deaths

• February 10 - Samuel Prout, watercolour painter (b. 1783)
• May 30 - George Chinnery, painter (b. 1774)
• June 4 - James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (b. 1790)
• June 11 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (b. 1799)
• August 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (b. 1801)
• August 14 - Eberhard Wächter, painter (b. 1762)
• September 14 - Augustus Pugin, architect, illustrator, and designer (b. 1812)
• September 20 - William Finden, engraver (b. 1787)
• September 23 - John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (b. 1775)
• December 18 - Horatio Greenough, sculptor (b. 1805)
• date unknown - Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (b. 1796)