# 1852 in art

Events from the year 1852 in art.

## Events

* February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg.
* June 1 – The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery.

## Works

* Théodore Chassériau – Le Harem (approximate date)
* Frederic Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia
* Gustave Courbet
** Village Damsels
** A Girl Spinning
* Thomas Couture – Anselm Feuerbach
* Anselm Feuerbach – Hafiz at the Fountain
* Francis Grant
** Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
** Portrait of Sir Edwin Landseer
* Hiroshige – Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (first publication)
* William Holman Hunt – Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')
* George Inness – A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
* George Jones – Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work
* Alexander Kotzebue – The Battle of Zorndorf
* Frederic Leighton – The Death of Brunelleschi
* Charles Robert Leslie – Portrait of John Everett Millais
* John Martin – The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
* John Everett Millais
** A Huguenot
** Ophelia
* François Rude – Joan of Arc (marble)
* Henry Courtney Selous – The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria
* John Steell – The Duke of Wellington (equestrian bronze, Edinburgh)
* Thomas Sully -
** Pocahontas
* Frederick August Wenderoth and Charles Christian Nahl – Miners in the Sierras
* Edwin White -
** Pocahontas Informing John Smith of a Conspiracy of the Indians

## Exhibitions

* The Society of Arts holds Exhibition of Recent Specimens of Photography, a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.

## Publications

* Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria

## Births

* April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (died 1911)
* April 12 – Petar Ubavkić, Serbian sculptor and painter (died 1910)
* April 18 – George Clausen, English artist (died 1944)
* May 18 – Gertrude Käsebier, née Stanton, American portrait photographer (died 1934)
* July 27 – Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (died 1901)
* September 21 – Edmund Leighton, English historical genre painter (died 1922)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Kapiton Pavlov, Russian portrait painter (born 1791)
* February 10 – Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (born 1783)
* February 24 – John Frazee, first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born 1790)
* March 9 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (born 1779)
* April 5 – William Cuming, Irish portrait painter (born 1769)
* May 30 – George Chinnery, English painter working in China (born 1774)
* June 4 – James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1790)
* June 11 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (born 1799)
* July 12 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (born 1780)
* August 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (born 1801)
* August 14 – Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (born 1762)
* September 14 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator and designer (born 1812)
* September 20 – William Finden, English engraver (born 1787)
* September 23 – John Vanderlyn, American painter in the neoclassical style (born 1775)
* October 17 – Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter (born 1799)
* October 26 – Johann Erdmann Hummel, German painter (born 1769)
* October 29 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (born 1796)
* December 18 – Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (born 1805)