1848 in art

• April 10 – John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland. • September – John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the former's family home in Gower Street (London). • c. October – The first frescoes of scenes from English literature in the Poets' Hall of the Palace of Westminster are completed: Charles West Cope's ''Griselda's first Trial of Patience'' and John Callcott Horsley's ''Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve''. • December 10 – The Leipzig Art Association opens the Städtische Museum. • In Cambridge, England, the Fitzwilliam Museum's Founder's Building (designed by George Basevi and completed by C. R. Cockerell) is opened. • In Copenhagen, Denmark, the Thorvaldsen Museum of sculpture (designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll) is opened. • In England, John Webb Singer establishes the Frome Art Metal Works, a foundry that becomes Morris Singer. ==Works==

'', exhibited in the Frankfurt Parliament • Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Chesma • Richard Ansdell – The Fight for the Standard • Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Den Danske Landsoldat • Karl Bryullov – Self-portrait • Edward William Cooke – Dutch Yachting on the Zuider Zee • Auguste Couder – The Tennis Court Oath • David Cox – Crossing the Sands • Thomas Crawford - Mexican Girl Dying • Edward Hicks – The Cornell Farm • Holman Hunt – The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness attending the Revelry, Eve of Saint Agnes • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Baronne de Rothschild • August Kopisch – The Pontine Marshes at Sunset • Edwin Landseer – A Random Shot • Emanuel Leutze - The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops • John Everett Millais – Cymon and Iphigenia • Jean-François Millet • The Winnower • The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon (later covered by The Young Shepherdess in 1870 due to a scarcity of materials during the Franco-Prussian War; rediscovered in 1984 by x-ray at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts) • Samuel Palmer – The Water Mill • Ferdinand Richardt • Frederiksborg Castle • Kronborg Castle • David Roberts – Mont Saint Michel • Théophile Schuler – The Chariot of Death (painting, completed in 1851) • Clarkson Stanfield – In the Gulf of Venice • John Evan Thomas – Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture) • Philipp Veit – Germania • George Frederic Watts – Orlando Pursuing the Fata Morgana • Richard Caton Woodville – Politics in an Oyster House ==Births==

• January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American painter (died 1933) • February 18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933) • March 1 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1907) • March 14 – Lise Tréhot, French art model died 1922) • March 18 – Princess Louise, member of the British royal family and sculptor (died 1939) • March 22 – Sarah Purser, Irish painter and stained-glass maker (died 1943) • April 29 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1906) • June 8 – Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter (died 1903) • August 10 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (died 1892) • August 19 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (died 1894) • September 26 – Helen Allingham, English painter and illustrator (died 1926) • October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and arts patron (died 1929) • date unknown • Giovanni Battista Amendola, Italian-born sculptor (died 1887) • Helen Thornycroft, English painter (died 1937) ==Deaths==

• January 14 – Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (born 1821) • February 7 – Christen Købke, Danish painter (born 1810) • February 11 – Thomas Cole, American landscape painter (born 1801) • February 29 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (born 1775) • March 23 – Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (born 1770) • March 29 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (born 1803) • May 17 – Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (born 1761) • May 30 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (born 1774) • June 28 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (born 1768) • August 15 – Pyotr Sokolov, Russian aquarelle portraitist (born 1791) • August 20 – Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1790) • November 14 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (born 1802) • December 13 – John Ternouth, English sculptor (born 1796) ==References==