1839 in art

• January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. • January 25 – 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 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. ==Works==

– The Coronation of Queen Victoria. – The Fighting Temeraire '' by Johan Christian Dahl • Jean Alaux – The Battle of Denain • John Bell – Babes in the Wood (sculpture) • Giovanni Battista Borghesi – Portrait of Marie Louise • Sara Anne Bright – The Leaf (photogenic drawing) • Johan Christian Dahl – View of Dresden by Moonlight • Eugène Delacroix – Jewish Wedding in Morocco • Charles Lock Eastlake – Christ Blessing Little Children • Francis Grant – A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey • Francesco Hayez – Reclining Odalisque • George Hayter – The Coronation of Queen Victoria • John Callcott Horsley – The Rival Performers • Eugène Isabey – The Battle of Texel • Johann Peter Krafft – The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig • Jean-Charles Langlois – The Battle of Smolensk • Edwin Landseer – • Dignity and Impudence • Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals • Charles-Philippe Larivière – The Battle of Castillon • Henri Lehmann – Portrait of Franz Liszt • Charles Robert Leslie – Dulcinea del Toboso • Daniel Maclise • Portrait of Charles Dickens • Robin Hood and His Merry Men Entertaining Richard the Lionheart in Sherwood Forest • John Martin – The Coronation of Queen Victoria • William Mulready • Fair Time • The Sonnet • Thomas Phillips • Portrait of the Earl of Egremont • Portrait of Thomas Arnold • Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet • J. M. W. Turner • Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus • Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino • Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum • 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 – Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tipoo Sahib • William Wyon – Una and the Lion (design for five pounds British gold coin) ==Births==

• January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906) • March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (died 1922) • May 24 – Arthur Quartley, painter (died 1886) • June 9 – Joseph Paelinck, Belgian painter (born 1781) • September 1 – Charles Edward Perugini, English painter (died 1918) • October 2 – Hans Thoma, German painter (died 1924) • October 29 – Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (died 1929) • October 30 – Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter (died 1899) • November 16 – William De Morgan, English ceramic artist (died 1917) • November 20 – Christian Wilberg, painter (died 1882) • date unknown – François Sallé, French realist painter (died 1899) ==Deaths==

• January 12 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (born 1768) • January 14 – John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (born 1781) • January 28 – Sir William Beechey, English portrait painter (born 1753) • February 6 – François Louis Thomas Francia, French shorescape watercolorist (born 1772) • February 8 – Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1760) • February 21 – John Charles Felix Rossi, English sculptor (born 1769) • June 2 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (born 1813) • June 4 – Cornelia Scheffer, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist (born 1769) • July 8 – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher (born 1761) • September 4 – Hendrik Voogd, Dutch painter and printmaker active in Italy (born 1768) • September 10 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer (born 1773) • September 30 – John Thirtle, English watercolour painter and frame-maker (born 1777) • November 15 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born 1743) • December – William Sadler, Irish landscape painter (born 1782) • December 22 – Cornelis van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1756) • date unknown – Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, Italian portrait and caricature painter (born 1757) ==References==