1843 in art

• 8 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London. • August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide. • The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh. ==Publications==

• Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable • John Ruskin – Modern Painters ==Works==

• Berlin Peace Column • Madison Square Fountain, New York City • Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett • Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters • Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait) • Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat • William Etty – ''Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed''' (first version) • Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("''From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection''") • George Hayter – The House of Commons, 1833 • Eugène Lami – ''The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu'' • Charles Landseer – The Dying Warrior • Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665 • Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave • David Roberts – The Gate of Metawaley • Hendrik Scheffer – Entry of Joan of Arc into Liberated Orleans • J. M. W. Turner • ''Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis'' • St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina • The Opening of the Wallhalla • The Sun of Venice Going to Sea • Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino • Horace Vernet – Arabs Travelling in the Desert • Gustaf Wappers – Souvenirs of Antwerp • Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims • Franz Xaver Winterhalter • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles) • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection) ==Births==

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923) • March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884) • April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942) • April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900) • June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904) • July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894) • September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915) • September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown) • November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933) • November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932) • date unknown • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897) • Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898) ==Deaths==

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776) • January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762) • Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770) • March 19 – Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782) • April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786) • July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779) • July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769) • July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784) • August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787) • October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754) • November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756) • November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779) • date unknown • Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777) • Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown) ==References==