1844 in art
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[edit] Events
- July 31 - Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1844 paintings
- Gustave Courbet
- Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
- The Hammock
- J. M. W. Turner - Rain, Steam and Speed
[edit] Births
- May 21 - Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", modernist primitive painter (d. 1910)
- May 22 - Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter (d. 1926)
- July 25 - Thomas Eakins, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1916)
- August 5 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
- October 22 - Lady Margaret Forrest, patron of the arts (d. 1929)
- October 28 - Moses Jacob Ezekiel, sculptor (d. 1917)
- Susan Dacre, English painter (d. 1933)
- Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
- William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
- Mihály Munkácsy, painter (d. 1909)
- Annie Swynnerton, English painter (d. 1933)
[edit] Deaths
- March 24 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (b. 1770)
- May 2 - William Thomas Beckford, art critic (b. 1760)
- Pierre-Antoine Bellange, furniture maker (b. 1760)
- Christian Gobrecht, engraver (b. 1785)
- Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer (b. 1786)
- Andrew Geddes, British painter (b. 1783)
- Augustus Wall Callcott - English landscape painter (b. 1779)
- Giuseppe Bernardino Bison - Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (b. 1762)
- Qian Du - Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1764)
