1849 in art

Events

• May
  • First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner, London.
  • John Ruskin publishes The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for painting) – Gustave Boulanger

Works

Isabella (Millais)

• Gustave Courbet – After Dinner at Ornans
• Asher Brown Durand – Kindred Spirits
• William Holman Hunt – Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions
• John Everett Millais – Isabella

Births

• January 12 – Jean Béraud, painter (d. 1935)
• June 2 – Paul-Albert Besnard, painter (d. 1934)
• December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, art patron (d. 1919)

Deaths

• January 30 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (b. 1784)
• March 5 – David Scott, historical painter (b. 1806)
• March 18 - Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (b. 1796)
• May 18 - Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (b. 1791)
• May 10 - Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (b. 1760)
• August 21 - Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor (b. 1790)
• August 23 - Edward Hicks, folk artist (b. 1780)
• November 13 - William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (b. 1787)
• November 21 – François Marius Granet, painter (b. 1777)
• December 9 – John Glover, landscape painter (b. 1767)
• December 27 - Jacques-Laurent Agasse, animal and landscape painter (b. 1767)