# 1843 in art

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]]
Events from the year 1843 in art.

## Events

* August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
* The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.
* John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.

## Works

* Berlin Peace Column
* Madison Square Fountain, New York City
* Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
* Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait)
* Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
* William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version)
* Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection")
* Sir George Hayter
** Self-portrait
** The House of Commons, 1833
* Eugène Lami – The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu
* Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
* Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
* J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
* Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
* Franz Xaver Winterhalter
** Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
** Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

## Births

* March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
* March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
* April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942)
* April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
* June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
* July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
* September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
* September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
* November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
* November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
* date unknown
** Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)
** Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)
* January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)
* Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
* April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786)
* July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779)
* July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)
* July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
* August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787)
* October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
* November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756)
* November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
* date unknown
** Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
** Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)
** Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)