1842 in art
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[edit] Events
- Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.
- Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries.
- William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.
- George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire.
[edit] Works
See also: Category:1842 paintings
[edit] Births
- February 6 - Paul Sébillot, painter and author (d. 1918)
- September 6 - Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, photographer (d. 1915)
- November 29 - William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator (d. 1921)
- 16 December – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (d.1909)
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- William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (d. 1900)
[edit] Deaths
- March 30 - Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, painter (b. 1755)
- July 28 - John Sell Cotman - English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (b. 1782)
- November 17 - John Varley - English watercolour painter and astrologer (b. 1778)
- Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine (b. 1800)
- Peter Fendi - Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (b. 1796)
- Alexander Clarot - Austrian painter (b. 1796)
