1850 in art

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-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

Births

• January 10 - John Wellborn Root, architect
• January 27 - John Collier, painter
• February 27 - Henry E. Huntington, art collector
• March 9 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor
• April 26 - Harry Bates, sculptor
• November 22 Georg Dehio, art historian
• November 28 - Robert Koehler, painter
• December 21 - Lluís Domènech i Montaner, architect
• December 25 - Florence Griswold, curator
• December 31 - John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, portrait painter
• date unknown - Alfred Boucher, sculptor
• date unknown - Edward John Gregory, painter
• date unknown - Per Hasselberg, sculptor
• date unknown - George Hitchcock, painter
• date unknown - Victor Laloux, architect

Deaths

• January 27 - Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor
• April 16 - Madame Marie Tussaud, modeller of waxworks
• August 13 - Sir Martin Archer Shee, portrait painter
• October 2 - Sarah Biffen, disabled painter
• date unknown - Sir William Allan, historical painter
• date unknown - Jean Broc, painter
• date unknown - Francis Hervé, painter
• date unknown - Benjamin Dean Wyatt, architect
• date unknown - Richard Wyatt, sculptorsv:Konståret 1850