1842 in art

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Events

• Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
• Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
• William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
• George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.

Works

See also: Category:1842 paintings

Births

• November 29 – William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator (d. 1921)
• December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (d.1909)
• December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (d. 1900)

Deaths

• March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, painter (b. 1755)
• July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (b. 1782)
• August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (b. 1796)
• November 17 – John Varley – English watercolour painter and astrologer (b. 1778)
• date unknown
  • Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (b. 1800)
  • James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (b. 1802)