1846 in art
# 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

* 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
* Eliseo Sala – Pia de' Tolomei
* Giovanni Strazza – Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert (completed).
* George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca

## Births

* March 17 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (died 1901)
* May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English studio potter (died 1920)
* 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)
* December 9 – John Macallan Swan, English painter and sculptor (died 1910)

## Deaths

* January 22 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, French architect and engraver (born 1764)
* April 16 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (born 1778)
* June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss 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, Swiss-born American landscape painter and lithographer (born 1804)
* October 5 – Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (born 1790)
* December 12 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, French artist and explorer (born 1778)
* date unknown – Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (born 1785)
