Events from the year1850 in art.

• Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at theRoyal Academy,^[1] Millais'Christ in the House of His Parents being attacked for its ultra-realism.James Collinson resigns from thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which then dissolves.
• Francisco Goya's engravings,Proverbios, are posthumously published.
• Edouard Pingret relocates toMexico City.

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:William-Adolphe Bouguereau,Paul Baudry.
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music:J.A. Charlot.

• Ivan Aivazovsky –The Ninth Wave
• Oswald Achenbach –Evening in the Campagna
• Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen –The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape
• Théodore Chassériau –Othello and Desdemona in Venice
• Charles Allston Collins –Berengaria's Alarm
• James Collinson
  • Answering the Emigrant's Letter
  • The Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot –Une Matinée
• Gustave Courbet
  • A Burial At Ornans
  • The Stone Breakers
• Hippolyte Delaroche –Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
• William Maw Egley –Prospero and Miranda (approximate date)
• Emmanuel Frémiet
  • Wounded Bear
  • Wounded Dog
• J. W. Glass -
  • John Rolfe and Pocahontas
• Horatio Greenough –The Rescue (statue)
• Francesco Hayez
  • The Meditation (first version)
  • Susanna at her Bath
• John Rogers Herbert
  • Children of the Painter
  • Cordelia Disinherited (oil on canvas,Harris Museum,Preston, Lancashire)
  • Lear Disinheriting Cordelia (fresco in Poets' Hall,Palace of Westminster)
• William Holman Hunt –A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
• Daniel Huntington –Feckenham in the Tower
• Jan August Hendrik Leys –Divine Service in Holland
• Adolph von Menzel –Round Table at Sansouci
• John Everett Millais
  • Christ in the House of His Parents
  • Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
• Jean-François Millet –The Sower (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Henry Wyndham Phillips –The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti –Ecce Ancilla Domini
• Ludwig von Schwanthaler (posthumous) –Bavaria statue
• Carl Spitzweg –The Bookworm
• J.M.W. Turner –The Departure of the Fleet
• George Frederic Watts –Found Drowned (approximate date)

• January 1 –Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died1894)
• January 5 –Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (died1907)
• January 27 –John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died1934)
• February 27 –Henry E. Huntington, American art collector (died1927)
• March 9 – SirHamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (died1925)
• April 19 –Edward John Gregory, English painter (died1909)
• April 20
  • Daniel Chester French,American Aculptor (died1931)
  • Jean-François Raffaëlli, French realist painter (died1924)
• April 26 –Harry Bates, English sculptor (died1899)
• May 8 –José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (died1899)
• July 7 –Max Schmalzl, Bavarian religious painter and illustrator (died1930)
• September 29 –George Hitchcock, American-born painteren plein air (died1913)
• November 22 –Georg Dehio, Estonian-born German art historian (died1932)
• September 23 –Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (died1934)
• November 28 –Robert Koehler, German-born American painter (died1917)
• December 25 –Florence Griswold, American curator (died1937)
• December 31 –John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died1938)

• January 16 –Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (born1750)
• January 20 –Lorenzo Bartolini,Italiansculptor (born1777)
• January 22 –William Westall,English landscape painter (born1781)
• January 27 –Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (born1764)
• February 23 –Sir William Allan, historical painter (born1782)
• April 11 –Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (born1786)
• April 15 –Jules Robert Auguste, FrenchImpressionist painter (born1789)
• April 16 – MadameMarie Tussaud, French-born modeller of waxworks (born1761)
• May –Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (born1795)
• July 22 –Vicente López y Portaña,Spanish portrait painter (born1772)
• August 13 – SirMartin Archer Shee, Irish-born portrait painter (born1769)
• August 27 –Henry Room, English portrait painter (born1802)
• October 2 –Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (born1784)
• November 10 –Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in thetroubadour style (born1780)
• December 8 –Anatole Devosge, French painter (born1770)
• date unknown
  • Jean Broc, painter (born1771)
  • Francis Hervé, painter (born1781)
  • François Mulard,Neoclassical French painter (born1769)
  • Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in theQing dynasty (born1801)

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