1850 in art

Events

6 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850 opens at the National Gallery in London
Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy,^[1] 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.

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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)

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)
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- 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)

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