# 1850 in art

Events from the year 1850 in art.

## Events

* Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism. James Collinson resigns from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.
* Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.
* Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.

## Awards

* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.
* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
* Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.

## Works

* Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave
* Oswald Achenbach – Evening in the Campagna
* Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen – The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
* Théodore Chassériau – Othello and Desdemona in Venice
* Charles Allston Collins – Berengaria's Alarm
* James Collinson
** Answering the Emigrant's Letter
** The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Une Matinée
* Gustave Courbet
** A Burial At Ornans
** The Stone Breakers
* Hippolyte Delaroche – Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
* William Maw Egley – Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
* Emmanuel Frémiet
** Wounded Bear
** Wounded Dog
* J. W. Glass -
** John Rolfe and Pocahontas
* Horatio Greenough – The Rescue (statue)
* Francesco Hayez
** The Meditation (first version)
** Susanna at her Bath
* John Rogers Herbert
** Children of the Painter
** Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas, Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire)
** Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall, Palace of Westminster)
* William Holman Hunt – A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
* Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower
* Jan August Hendrik Leys – Divine Service in Holland
* Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci
* John Everett Millais
** Christ in the House of His Parents
** Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
* Jean-François Millet – The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Henry Wyndham Phillips – The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Ecce Ancilla Domini
* Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue
* Carl Spitzweg – The Bookworm
* J.M.W. Turner – The Departure of the Fleet
* George Frederic Watts – Found Drowned (approximate date)

## Births

* January 1 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1894)
* January 5 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died 1907)
* January 27 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1934)
* February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died 1927)
* March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1925)
* April 19 – Edward John Gregory, English painter (died 1909)
* April 20
** Daniel Chester French, American Aculptor (died 1931)
** Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died 1924)
* April 26 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (died 1899)
* May 8 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died 1899)
* July 7 – Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died 1930)
* September 29 – George Hitchcock, American-born painter en plein air (died 1913)
* November 22 – Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died 1932)
* September 23 – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died 1934)
* November 28 – Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died 1917)
* December 25 – Florence Griswold, American curator (died 1937)
* December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)

## Death

* January 16 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born 1750)
* January 20 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (born 1777)
* January 22 – William Westall, English landscape painter (born 1781)
* January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born 1764)
* February 23 – Sir William Allan, historical painter (born 1782)
* April 11 – Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born 1786)
* April 15 – Jules Robert Auguste, French Impressionist painter (born 1789)
* April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born 1761)
* May – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born 1795)
* July 22 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (born 1772)
* August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born 1769)
* August 27 – Henry Room, English portrait painter (born 1802)
* October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born 1784)
* November 10 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (born 1780)
* December 8 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (born 1770)
* date unknown
** Jean Broc, painter (born 1771)
** Francis Hervé, painter (born 1781)
** François Mulard, Neoclassical French painter (born 1769)
** Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in the Qing dynasty (born 1801)