1850 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.
• Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: J.A. Charlot.

Works

Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

See also: Category:1850 paintings

• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Une Matinée
• Gustave Courbet – The Stone-breakers
• Emmanuel Frémiet – Wounded Bear and Wounded Dog
• Daniel Huntington – Feckenham in the Tower
• Jan August Hendrik Leys – Service divin en Hollande
• Adolph von Menzel – Round Table at Sansouci
• Sir John Everett Millais – Christ in the House of His Parents
• Jean-François Millet – The Sower
• Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) – Bavaria statue

Births

• January 27 – John Collier, painter (d. 1934)
• February 27 – Henry E. Huntington, art collector (d. 1927)
• March 9 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (d. 1925)
• April 26 – Harry Bates, sculptor (d. 1899)
• November 22 Georg Dehio, art historian (d. 1932)
• November 28 – Robert Koehler, painter (d. 1917)
• December 25 – Florence Griswold, curator (d. 1937)
• December 31 – John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter (d. 1938)
• Alfred Boucher, sculptor (d. 1934)
• Edward John Gregory, painter (d. 1909)
• Per Hasselberg, sculptor (d. 1894)
• George Hitchcock, painter (d. 1913)
• José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (d. 1899)

Deaths

• January 27 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (b. 1764)
• April 16 – Madame Marie Tussaud, modeller of waxworks (b. 1761)
• August 13 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter (b. 1769)
• October 2 – Sarah Biffen, disabled painter (b. 1784)
• Sir William Allan, historical painter (b. 1782)
• Jean Broc, painter (b. 1771)
• Francis Hervé, painter (b. 1781)
• Richard Wyatt, sculptor (b. 1795)
• Jules Robert Auguste – French painter Impressionist movement (b. 1789)
• Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1801)
• Vicente López y Portaña – Spanish portrait painter (b. 1772)
• Lorenzo Bartolini – Italian sculptor (b. 1777)