# 1842 in art

Events from the year 1842 in art.

## Events

* David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs).
* Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
* Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
* George Hayter granted a knighthood.
* William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
* George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
* Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands.
* Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London.

## Works

* Thomas Brigstocke – Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother
* Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau
* Théodore Chassériau – The Descent from the Cross
* Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
* Gustave Courbet – Self-Portrait with a Black Dog
* Richard Dadd – Come unto these Yellow Sands
* Johan Christian Dahl
** Frogner Manor
** View from Stalheim
* William Powell Frith – Dolly Varden
* Benjamin Haydon
** The Black Prince Thanking Lord James Audley for his Gallantry in the Battle of Poitiers
** The Maid of Saragossa
** Wordsworth on Helvellyn
* George Hayter – The Marriage of Queen Victoria
* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
** Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry
** Odalisque with Slave
* Daniel Maclise – The Play-scene in Hamlet
* Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Michael Faraday
* J. M. W. Turner
** Peace – Burial at Sea
** Snowstorm – steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead
** War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
** Rigi series of watercolours
* Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert
* Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood
* Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth
* Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood
* Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age

## Births

* June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916)
* October 18 – Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922)
* November 29 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921)
* December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909)
* December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900)
* December 31 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)

## Deaths

* March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774)
* March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755)
* May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)
* May 26 – James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802)
* July 7 – Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759)
* July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782)
* August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796)
* September 11 – Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (born 1800)
* November 17 – John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (born 1778)
* date unknown
** Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (born 1774)
** George Barret, Jr., English landscape painter (born 1767)
** Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (born 1779)
** Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (born 1796)