1843 in art

Events

• August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, murders his father.
• John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.

Works

Hayter – Self-portrait

• Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
• Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy’s Plaster Cast Collection")
• Sir George Hayter – Self-portrait
• Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
• J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
  • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

Births

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
• April 4 – William Jackson, photographer (died 1942)
• April 8 - Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
• June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
• September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, photographer (died 1915)
• November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer (died 1932)
• date unknown
  • Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)

Deaths

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, engraver (b. 1776)
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, watercolour painter (b. 1762)
• July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (b. 1779)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (b. 1769)
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, sculptor (b. 1787)
• October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (b. 1754)
• November 10 – John Trumbull, painter (b. 1756)
• date unknown – Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during in the late Edo period (b. unknown)