1843 in art

Events from the year 1843 in art.

• 8 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 opens at the National Gallery in London.^[1]
• 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.

• Charles Robert Leslie – Memoirs of the Life of John Constable^[2]
• John Ruskin – Modern Painters

• Berlin Peace Column
• Madison Square Fountain, New York City
• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett^[3]
• 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^[4]
• Eugène Lami – The Arrival of Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 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^[7]
  • The Opening of the Wallhalla ^[8]
  • The Sun of Venice Going to Sea^[9]
• Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
• Horace Vernet – Arabs Travelling in the Desert^[10]
• Gustaf Wappers – Souvenirs of Antwerp^[11]
• Robert Walter Weir – Embarkation of the Pilgrims^[12]
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
  • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

• 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)

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)^[13]
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)^[14]
• 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)^[15]
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)^[16]
• July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787)^[17]
• 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)