1846 in art
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Events from the year 1846 in art.
Events
- Edward Lear publishes Illustrated Excursions to Italy and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria.
- The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner.
Works
G. F. Watts – Paolo and Francesca
- Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Navarino
- Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape
- William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (Tate Britain version)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme – Young Greeks at a Cockfight
- Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay
- Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark
- John Everett Millais – Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (Tate Britain)
- Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound
- Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
- George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca
Births
- March 17 – Kate Greenaway, illustrator (died 1901)
- May 21 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (died 1920)
- October 14 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (died 1915)
- October 28 – Albert Dubois-Pillet, French Neo-impressionist painter (died 1890)
- November 3 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (died 1933)
Deaths
- January 22 – Louis Baltard, architect and engraver (born 1764)
- June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, painter and cartoonist (born 1799)
- June 22 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
- July 16 – Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (born 1779)
- August 11 - Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes (born 1769)
- August 12 – John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer (born 1804)
- December 12 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (born 1778)
- date unknown
- Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)
- Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)
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