1847 in art

Events from the year 1847 in art.

Events

• William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster.

Works

Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)

• John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic
• Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus
• Thomas Couture – Romans of the 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
• Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim
• Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine)

Births

• January 15 – Camille Doncieux, artists' model, wife of Monet (died 1879)
• February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, patron and sculptor (died 1933)
• March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter (died 1917)
• July 20 – Max Liebermann, painter (died 1935)
• September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, painter and printmaker (died 1915)
• September 11 – T. C. Steele, painter (died 1926)
• October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, sculptor (died 1921)
• October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, painter (died 1919)
• November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, painter (died 1928)
• date unknown
  • John Macallan Swan, painter and sculptor (died 1910)
  • Camille Doncieux, first wife and model of Claude Monet (died 1879)
  • Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925).

Deaths

• January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780)
• January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter (born 1770)
• February 17 – William Collins, painter (born 1788)
• March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (J.J. Grandville), caricaturist (born 1803)
• May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, portrait painter (born 1782)
• 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 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, musician and painter (born 1775)
• date unknown
  • Élise Bruyère, French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes (born 1776)
  • Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775)
  • William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786)
  • Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792)
  • Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776)
  • Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757)
  • Guillaume-Joseph Roques, painter (born 1757)
  • Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769)