1848 in art

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1848 in art

Events from the year 1848 in art.

Events

April 10 – John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland.^[1]
September – John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the former's family home in Gower Street (London).
c. October – The first frescoes of scenes from English literature in the Poets' Hall of the Palace of Westminster^[2] are completed: Charles West Cope's Griselda's first Trial of Patience and John Callcott Horsley's Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve.
December 10 – The Leipzig Art Association opens the Städtische Museum.
In Cambridge, England, the Fitzwilliam Museum's Founder's Building (designed by George Basevi and completed by C. R. Cockerell) is opened.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, the Thorvaldsen Museum of sculpture (designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll) is opened.
In England, John Webb Singer establishes the Frome Art Metal Works, a foundry that becomes Morris Singer.

January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American painter (died 1933)
February 18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
March 1 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1907)
March 14 – Lise Tréhot, French art model died 1922)
March 18 – Princess Louise, member of the British Royal Family and sculptor (died 1939)
March 22 – Sarah Purser, Irish painter and stained-glass maker (died 1943)
April 29 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1906)
June 8 – Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1903)
August 10 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (died 1892)
August 19 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (died 1894)
September 26 – Helen Allingham, English painter and illustrator (died 1926)
October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and arts patron (died 1929)
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- Giovanni Battista Amendola, Italian-born sculptor (died 1887)
- Helen Thornycroft, English painter (died 1937)

January 14 – Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (born 1821)
February 7 – Christen Købke, Danish painter (born 1810)
February 11 – Thomas Cole, American landscape painter (born 1801)
February 29 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (born 1775)
March 23 – Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (born 1770)
March 29 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (born 1803)
May 17 – Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (born 1761)
May 30 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (born 1774)
June 28 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (born 1768)
August 15 – Pyotr Sokolov, Russian aquarelle portraitist (born 1791)
August 20 – Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1790)
November 14 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (born 1802)
December 13 – John Ternouth, English sculptor (born 1796)

↑ Jiminez Berk; Joanna Banham (2001). Dictionary of Artists' Models. Taylor & Francis. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-57958-233-3.
↑ "Poets Hall". Art in Parliament. Parliament of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2013.