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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist's Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration.
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres exhibits Venus Anadyomene, which has taken him forty years to complete.

[edit] Awards

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu

[edit] Works

• Ford Madox Brown - The Last of England
• Gustave Courbet - The Artist's Studio (L‘Atelier du Peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

[edit] Births

• May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, portrait painter (d. 1942)
• July 30 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (d. 1933)
• September 8 - William Friese-Greene, photographer and cinematographer (d. 1921)

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (b. 1783)
• March 3 - Copley Fielding, painter (b. 1787)
• April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter (b. 1767)
• June 9 - Piotr Michałowski, Polish portrait painter (b. 1800)
• August 18 - Amasa Hewins - American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (b. 1795)
• September 16 - Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver (b. 1783)
• November 3 - François Rude, sculptor (b. 1784)
• date unknown
  • Johann Georg Primavesi, German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (b. 1774)
  • Wendela Gustafva Sparre, Swedish textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (b. 1772)