Events from the year 1839 in art.
Events January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 25 – H. Fox Talbot shows his "photogenic drawings" at the Royal Institution in London. March 1 – The Salon of 1839 opens at the Louvre in Paris May 6 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1839 opens at the National Gallery in London c. October – Robert Cornelius takes a daguerreotype self-portrait, the earliest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America. Honoré de Balzac's novel Pierre Grassou concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.
Works
Jean Alaux – The Battle of Denain Thomas Jones Barker – The Bride of Deathhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bride-of-death-39835 John Bell – Babes in the Wood (sculpture) Giovanni Battista Borghesi – Portrait of Marie Louise Sara Anne Bright – The Leaf (photogenic drawing) Johan Christian Dahl – View of Dresden by Moonlight Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyardhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE000919 Jewish Wedding in Morocco Charles Lock Eastlake – Christ Blessing Little Childrenhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/christ-blessing-little-children-204907 Francis Grant Portrait of Countess Jermynhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lady-katherine-isabella-manners-18091848-countess-jermyn-171870/view_as/grid/search/2026--work_type:painting--actor:grant-francis-18031878/sort_by/date_earliest/order/asc/page/4 A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey Francesco Hayez – Reclining Odalisque George Hayter – The Coronation of Queen Victoria John Callcott Horsley – The Rival Performershttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-rival-performers-31096 Eugène Isabey – The Battle of Texel Johann Peter Krafft – The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig Jean-Charles Langlois – The Battle of Smolensk Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals Charles-Philippe Larivière – The Battle of Castillon Henri Lehmann – Portrait of Franz Liszthttps://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/portrait-de-franz-liszt-1811-1886-compositeur-et-pianiste#infos-secondaires-detail Charles Robert Leslie – Dulcinea del Toboso Daniel Maclise Portrait of Charles Dickens Robin Hood and His Merry Men Entertaining Richard the Lionheart in Sherwood Forest John Martin – The Coronation of Queen Victoria William Mulready Fair Time The Sonnet Thomas Phillips Portrait of the Earl of Egremont Portrait of Thomas Arnold Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet J. M. W. Turner Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicushttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-ancient-rome-agrippina-landing-with-the-ashes-of-germanicus-n00523 Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum The Fighting Temeraire Horace Vernet – The Ballad of Lenorehttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/07430004134 Peter von Hess – The Entry of King Otto of Greece into Athens Thomas Webster – Footballhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/football-228890 David Wilkie Grace Before Meathttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/grace-before-meat-33439 Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tipoo Sahib William Wyon – Una and the Lion (design for five pounds British gold coin)
Births January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906) March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (died 1922) May 24 – Arthur Quartley, painter (died 1886) June 9 – Joseph Paelinck, Belgian painter (born 1781) September 1 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (died 1918) October 2 – Hans Thoma, German painter (died 1924) October 29 – Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (died 1929) October 30 – Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter (died 1899) November 16 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (died 1917) November 20 – Christian Wilberg, painter (died 1882) date unknown – François Sallé, French realist painter (died 1899)
Deaths January 12 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (born 1768) January 14 – John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (born 1781) January 28 – Sir William Beechey, English portrait painter (born 1753) February 6 – François Louis Thomas Francia, French shorescape watercolorist (born 1772) February 8 – Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1760) February 21 – John Charles Felix Rossi, English sculptor (born 1769) June 2 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (born 1813) June 4 – Cornelia Scheffer, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist (born 1769) July 8 – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1761) September 4 – Hendrik Voogd, Dutch painter and printmaker active in Italy (born 1768) September 10 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer (born 1773) September 30 – John Thirtle, English watercolour painter and frame-maker (born 1777) November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743) December – William Sadler, Irish landscape painter (born 1782) December 22 – Cornelis van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1756) date unknown – Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, Italian portrait and caricature painter (born 1757)
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