1842 in art

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Events

• David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
• Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
• Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
• William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
• George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
• Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.

Works

• Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau
• Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Odalisque with Slave
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Peace - Burial at Sea
  • Snowstorm - steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert

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  Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood

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  Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth

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  Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood

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  Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Births

• June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
• November 29 – William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
• December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
• December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)

Deaths

• March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, painter (born 1755)
• July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
• August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
• November 17 – John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
• date unknown
  • Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (b. 1800)
  • James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (b. 1802)