1847 in art

• 1 May – The Salon of 1847 opens at the Louvre in Paris • 22 December – The Vernon Gift is given by the art collector Robert Vernon to the National Gallery in London, forming the basis of the Gallery's collection by British artists • unknown date – William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster in London. ==Works==

'' by Edward Matthew Ward – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine) • Edward Armitage – The Battle of Meeanee • John Wilson Carmichael – HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic • Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus • Thomas Couture – The Romans in their Decadence • William Powell Frith – An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago • 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'' • Charles Lees – The Golfers • David Roberts – Edinburgh from the Castle • Theodor Sockl – Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim • Clarkson Stanfield – French Troops Fording the Magra • Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Lola Montez • Antoine Wiertz – Deux jeunes filles (La Belle Rosine) • Alexandre Cabanel – The Fallen Angel • Edward Matthew Ward – The South Sea Bubble ==Births==

• January 15 – Camille Doncieux, French artists' model, first wife of Monet (died 1879) • February 10 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French patron and sculptor (died 1933) • March 1 - Thomas Brock, English sculptor and medallist (died 1922) • March 19 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917) • April 1 – Hamilton Hamilton, English-born American painter (died 1928) • April 16 – Ellen Thayer Fisher, American botanical painter (died 1911) • July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter (died 1935) • September 10 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1915) • September 11 – T. C. Steele, American painter (died 1926) • October 6 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (died 1921) • October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (died 1919) • October 20 - Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906) • November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American painter (died 1928) • date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (died 1925). ==Deaths==

• January 1 – William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (born 1786) • January 4 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (born 1780) • January 16 – Michael Sigismund Frank, German glass painter (born 1770) • February – Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (born 1757) • February 17 – William Collins, English painter (born 1788) • March 17 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (J. J. Grandville), French caricaturist (born 1803) • May 28 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter and engraver (born 1780) • 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 15 – Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (born 1776) • 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, English musician and painter (born 1775) • date unknown • Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still life (born 1776) • Amelia Curran, Irish painter (born 1775) • Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (born 1792) • Guillaume-Joseph Roques, French painter (born 1757) • approximate date – Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (born 1769) ==References==