1852 in art

Events from the year 1852 in art.

Events

• February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg.
• May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1852 opens at the National Gallery in London
• June 1 – The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery.^[1]

Works

Portrait of Sir Edwin Landseer by Francis Grant

• Théodore Chassériau – Le Harem (approximate date)
• Frederic Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia^[2]
• 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

Millais – Ophelia

• John Everett Millais
  • A Huguenot
  • Ophelia
• David Roberts – The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition
• François Rude – Joan of Arc (marble)
• Henry Courtney Selous – The Opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria
• Clarkson Stanfield – The Harbour of La Rochelle
• 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.^[3]

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)^[4]
• 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)