1846 in art

Events from the year 1846 in art.

Events

• Edward Lear publishes Illustrated Excursions to Italy and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria.
• The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner.

Works

G. F. Watts – Paolo and Francesca

• Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Navarino
• Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape
• William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (Tate Britain version)
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Young Greeks at a Cockfight
• Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay
• Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark
• John Everett Millais – Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (Tate Britain)
• Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound
• Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
• George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca

Births

• March 17 – Kate Greenaway, illustrator (died 1901)
• May 21 – Luc-Olivier Merson, French painter (died 1920)
• October 14 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (died 1915)
• October 28 – Albert Dubois-Pillet, French Neo-impressionist painter (died 1890)
• November 3 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (died 1933)

Deaths

• January 22 – Louis Baltard, architect and engraver (born 1764)
• June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, painter and cartoonist (born 1799)
• June 22 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (born 1786; suicide)
• July 16 – Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (born 1779)
• August 11 - Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes (born 1769)
• August 12 – John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer (born 1804)
• December 12 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (born 1778)
• date unknown
  • Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)
  • Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)