1845 in art

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Events

• February 7 – The Portland Vase is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.

Works

• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Countess Haussonville
• Jan August Hendrik Leys – Franz Floris se rendant a une fête
• Adolph Menzel – The Balcony Room (Das Balkonzimmer)

Births

• July 4 – Edmonia Lewis, sculptor (d. 1907), birthdate listed on her passport
• October 1 – Adolf Oberländer, caricaturist (d. 1923)
• October 30 – Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter (d. 1916)

Deaths

• January 4 – Léopold Boilly, French painter (b. 1761)
• January 5 – Robert Smirke, painter (b. 1752)
• April 20 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (b. 1770)
• July 29 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (b. 1769)
• September 29 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (b. 1804)
• October 30 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects (b. 1792)
• November 24 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter (b. 1787)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter (b. 1781)
  • Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin – Russian portraitist and icon-painter (b. 1782)