1843 in art

Events from the year 1843 in art.

Events[edit]

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.

Hayter – Self-portrait

Berlin Peace Column
Madison Square Fountain, New York City
Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait; approximate date)
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
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)

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)

January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)^[1]
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)^[2]
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)

^ Oxford University Press (June 21, 2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2.
^ J. David Archibald (December 15, 2018). Charles Darwin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-5381-1164-2.