1847 in art
# 1847 in art

Events from the year 1847 in art.

## Events

* Salon indépendent established in Paris.
* William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster.

## Works

* John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
* Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
* Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence
* Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight
* Solomon Hart – Milton Visiting Galileo when a Prisoner of the Inquisition
* John Rogers Herbert – Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth
* Edward Hicks – Penn's Treaty
* Robert Huskisson – The Midsummer Night's Fairies
* Charles Lees – The Golfers
* Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
* Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)
* Alexandre Cabanel – The Fallen Angel

## Births

* January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879)
* February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933)
* March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922)
* March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)
* April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928)
* April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911)
* July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935)
* September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915)
* September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926)
* October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921)
* October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919)
* October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906)
* November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928)
* date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).

## Deaths

* January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786)
* January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780)
* January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770)
* February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757)
* February 17 – William Collins, English painter (born 1788)
* March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803)
* May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780)
* June 9 – Joachim Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (born 1761)
* July 1 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (born 1785)
* August 17 – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English-born painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (born 1794)
* August 29 – William Simson, Scottish-born painter (born 1799)
* September 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776)
* September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (born 1786)
* December 11 – Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life (born 1769)
* December 29 – William Crotch, English musician and painter (born 1775)
* date unknown
   * Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776)
   * Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775)
   * Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792)
   * Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757)
* approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)
