1839 in art

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Works

• Sir Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence
• Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet
• J. M. W. Turner – The Fighting Temeraire

Births

• January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d.1906)
• March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d.1922)
• September 1 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (d. 1918)
• October 2 – Hans Thoma, German painter (d.1924)
• October 29 – Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (d. 1929)
• October 30 – Alfred Sisley, impressionist painter (d. 1899)
• November 20 – Christian Wilberg, painter (d. 1882)
• date unknown
  • Arthur Quartley, painter (d. 1886)
  • François Salle, French realist painter (d. 1899)

Deaths

• January 12 - Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (b. 1768)
• January 14 - John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (b. 1781)
• January 28 – Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (b. 1753)
• February 6 - François Louis Thomas Francia, landscape painter (b. 1772)
• February 8 - Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1760)
• February 21 - John Charles Felix Rossi, sculptor (b. 1769)
• November 15 - Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy (b. 1743)
• December 22 – Cornelis van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (b. 1756)
• date unknown - William Sadler, Irish landscape painter (b. 1782)