1844 in art

Events

• July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.
• H. Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published (in London).^[1]

Works

Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed

• József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs
• Gustave Courbet
  • Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
  • The Hammock
• Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
• Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze)
• Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble)
• J. M. W. Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London)

Births

• February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, painter (died 1909)
• May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", modernist primitive painter (died 1910)
• May 22 – Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter (died 1926)
• July 25 – Thomas Eakins, painter, photographer, sculptor (died 1916)
• August 5 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (died 1930)
• September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893)
• October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, patron of the arts (died 1929)
• October 25 - Viktor Oskar Tilgner, sculptor (died 1896)
• October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (died 1917)
• date unknown
  • Susan Dacre, English painter (died 1933)
  • Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933)

Deaths

• January 8 – Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer (born 1786)
• March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
• May 2 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (born 1760)
• May 5 - Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783)
• July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, engraver (born 1785)
• August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766)
• August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762)
• October 14 – Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772)
• November 2 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)
• date unknown
  • Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780)
  • Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1764)

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