1844 in art

• The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed. • June – Henry Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera to be commercially published (in London). • July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States. ==Works==

'' by John Partridge. – Rain, Steam and Speed • József Borsos – Portrait of Kristóf Hegedűs • Ford Madox Brown – The Bromley Family • William Collins – Seaford, Sussex • Charles West Cope – Palpitation • Gustave Courbet • Portrait of Juliette Courbet (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) • The Hammock • Thomas Couture – The Love of Gold • Thomas Creswick – Scene on the Tummel, Perthshire • Honoré Daumier – Les bas bleus ("Bluestockings", series of lithographs) • Eugène Delacroix – Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius • William Powell Frith – John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scots • Théodore de Gudin – ''La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684'' • Joseph Patrick Haverty – ''Patrick O'Brien: The Limerick Piper'' • Edwin Landseer – Shoeing • Carlo Marochetti – Wellington Statue, Glasgow (equestrian bronze) • Eleuterio Pagliano – İl pepe e il peperoncino • Dominique Papety – The Temptation of Saint Hilarion • John Partridge – Portrait of Lord Melbourne • Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux – The Battle of Rivoli • Francesco Podesti – The Oath of the Anconetani • Richard Redgrave • The Governess • The Sempstress • Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave (marble) • Frederick Richard Say – Portrait of the Earl of Derby • Clarkson Stanfield • The Morning after the Wreck • Oude Scheld – Texel Island • J. M. W. Turner • Approach to Venice • Ostend • Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (National Gallery, London) • Venice, Maria della Salute • Venice Quay, Ducal Palace • Peter von Hess – Crossing the Berezina River • William Lindsay Windus - The Black Boy (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool) ==Births==

• February 20 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (died 1909) • February 26 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (died 1933) • April – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (died 1919) • April 14 – Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (died 1910) • May 21 – Henri Rousseau, "Le Douanier Rousseau", French modernist primitive painter (died 1910) • May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter (died 1926) • July 25 • Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor (died 1916) • Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter (died 1892) • July 31 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (died 1925) • August 5 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930) • September 20 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (died 1893) • October 22 – Lady Margaret Forrest, French-born Australian patron of the arts (died 1929) • October 25 – Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Austrian sculptor (died 1896) • October 28 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor (died 1917) • date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (died 1933) ==Deaths==

• February 21 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1761) • March 6 – Francis Nicholson, English landscape painter (born 1753) • March 24 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (born 1770) • May 2 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron art critic (born 1760) • May 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter (born 1783) • May 14 – Robert Hills, English painter and etcher (born 1769) • July 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (born 1785) • August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (born 1766) • August 28 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (born 1762) • October 14 • Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (born 1772) • Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785) • November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779) • November 18 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter (born 1775) • date unknown • Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (born 1792) • Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (born c.1780) • Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (born 1782) • Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born 1764) • Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1783) ==References==