Editing 1839 in art

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Events from the year '''1839 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[January 9]] – The [[French Academy of Sciences]] announces the [[Daguerreotype]] [[photography]] process.
* [[January 25]] – [[Henry Fox Talbot|H. Fox Talbot]] shows his "photogenic drawings" at the [[Royal Institution]] in London.
* [[May 6]] – The [[Royal Academy Exhibition of 1839]] opens at the [[National Gallery]] in London
* c. October – [[Robert Cornelius]] takes a [[daguerreotype]] [[:File:RobertCornelius.jpg|self-portrait]], the earliest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America.
* [[Honoré de Balzac]]'s novel ''[[Pierre Grassou]]'' concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ruth Yeazell|last=Yeazell|first=Ruth Bernard|year=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka4Ox67dy_cC&pg=PA88|title=Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel|publisher=Princeton University Press|page=88|isbn=0691127263}}</ref>

==Works==
[[File:Sir George Hayter (1792-1871) - The Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, 28 June 1838 - RCIN 405409 - Royal Collection.jpg|thumb|300px|[[George Hayter|Hayter]] – ''[[The Coronation of Queen Victoria]]''.]]
[[File:The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, National Gallery.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|[[J. M. W. Turner|Turner]] – ''[[The Fighting Temeraire]]'']]
[[File:Johan Christian Dahl - View of Dresden by Moonlight - Google Art Project (NwHK-NsdInFfMQ).jpg|thumb|''[[View of Dresden by Moonlight]]'' by 
[[Johan Christian Dahl]]]]
* [[Jean Alaux]] – ''The Battle of Denain''
* [[John Bell (sculptor)|John Bell]] – ''[[:File:Babes in the woods john bell.jpg|Babes in the Wood]]'' (sculpture)
* Sara Anne Bright – ''The Leaf'' (photogenic drawing)<ref>{{cite news|first=Nick|last=Clark|title=The leaf storm|newspaper=[[i (British newspaper)|i]]|location=London|issue=1438|date=2015-07-06|page=27}}</ref>
*[[Johan Christian Dahl]] – ''[[View of Dresden by Moonlight]]''
* [[Francesco Hayez]] – ''[[:File:Francesco Hayez 024.jpg|Reclining Odalisque]]''
*[[George Hayter]] – ''[[The Coronation of Queen Victoria]]''
* [[Johann Peter Krafft]] – ''[[The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig]]''
* [[Jean-Charles Langlois]] – ''[[The Battle of Smolensk]]''
* [[Edwin Landseer]] – ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landseer-dignity-and-impudence-n00604 Dignity and Impudence]''
* [[Daniel Maclise]] – ''[[Portrait of Charles Dickens]]''
* [[Carl Spitzweg]] – ''[[:File:Carl Spitzweg 017 (Der arme Poet).jpg|The Poor Poet]]''
* [[J. M. W. Turner]]
** ''[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/william-turner/ancient-rome-agrippina-landing-with-the-ashes-of-germanicus Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus]''
** ''[[Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino]]''
** ''Cicero at his Villa''
** ''[[The Fighting Temeraire]] tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838''
* [[Peter von Hess]] – ''[[The Entry of King Otto of Greece into Athens]]''
* [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]] – ''[[Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tipoo Sahib]]''
* [[William Wyon]] – ''[[Una and the Lion]]'' (design for [[Five pounds (British gold coin)|five pounds British gold coin]])

==Births==
* [[January 19]] – [[Paul Cézanne]], French painter (died [[1906 in art|1906]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Cézanne {{!}} French artist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] – [[John Butler Yeats]], Irish painter (died [[1922 in art|1922]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Arthur Quartley]], painter (died [[1886 in art|1886]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Joseph Paelinck]], Belgian painter (born [[1781 in art|1781]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Charles Edward Perugini]], English painter (died [[1918 in art|1918]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Hans Thoma]], German painter (died [[1924 in art|1924]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Kate Dickens Perugini]], English painter (died [[1929 in art|1929]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Alfred Sisley]], French impressionist painter (died [[1899 in art|1899]])
* [[November 16]] – [[William De Morgan]], English [[ceramic art]]ist (died [[1917 in art|1917]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Christian Wilberg]], painter (died [[1882 in art|1882]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[François Sallé]], French [[Realism (arts)|realist]] painter (died [[1899 in art|1899]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 12]] – [[Joseph Anton Koch]], Austrian [[Painting|painter]] of the [[German Romanticism|German Romantic]] movement (born [[1768 in art|1768]])
* [[January 14]] – [[John Wesley Jarvis]], American painter (born [[1781 in art|1781]])
* [[January 28]] – Sir [[William Beechey]], English portrait painter (born [[1753 in art|1753]])
* [[February 6]] – [[François Louis Thomas Francia]], French shorescape watercolorist (born [[1772 in art|1772]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Giovanni Cendramini]], Italian painter and engraver (born [[1760 in art|1760]])
* [[February 21]] – [[John Charles Felix Rossi]], English sculptor (born [[1769 in art|1769]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Wijnand Nuijen]], Dutch land- and seascape painter (born [[1813 in art|1813]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Cornelia Scheffer]], Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist (born [[1769 in art|1769]])
* [[July 8]] – [[John Laporte (artist)|John Laporte]], English landscape painter and etcher (born [[1761 in art|1761]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Hendrik Voogd]], Dutch painter and printmaker active in Italy (born [[1768 in art|1768]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Pieter Fontijn]], Dutch painter and drawer (born [[1773 in art|1773]])
* [[September 30]] – [[John Thirtle]], English watercolour painter and frame-maker (born [[1777 in art|1777]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Giocondo Albertolli]], Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born [[1743 in art|1743]])
* December – [[William Sadler (painter)|William Sadler]], Irish landscape painter (born [[1782 in art|1782]])<ref name="HutchinsonO'Connor1985">{{cite book|author1=John Hutchinson|author2=James Arthur O'Connor|title=James Arthur O'Connor|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesarthuroconn0000hutc|url-access=registration|year=1985|publisher=National Gallery of Ireland|isbn=978-0-903162-28-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/jamesarthuroconn0000hutc/page/44 44]}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Cornelis van Spaendonck]], Dutch painter (born [[1756 in art|1756]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini]], Italian portrait and caricature painter (born [[1757 in art|1757]])

==References==
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