1852 in art

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Works

See also: Category:1852 paintings

• Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning
• William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World
• John Martin - The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
• Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter - Florinda

Exhibitions

• The Society of Arts holds a photographic exhibition in London, the first of its kind.

Births

• April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
• July 27 - Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor (d. 1901)

Deaths

• February 10 - Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (b. 1783)
• May 30 - George Chinnery, English painter working in China (b. 1774)
• June 4 - James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (b. 1790)
• June 11 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (b. 1799)
• August 4 - Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (b. 1801)
• August 14 - Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter, German painter (b. 1762)
• September 14 - Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (b. 1812)
• September 20 - William Finden, English engraver (b. 1787)
• September 23 - John Vanderlyn, American neoclassical painter (b. 1775)
• December 18 - Horatio Greenough, American sculptor (b. 1805)
• date unknown - Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (b. 1796)