1844 in art

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Events from the year 1844 in art.

Events

The Gypsotheca Canoviana at the Museo Canova in Possagno is completed.^[1]
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).^[2]
July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is today the oldest art museum in the United States.^[3]

Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge.

Turner – Rain, Steam and Speed

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)

January 8 – Ferdinand Piloty, German lithographer (born 1786)
January 18 – Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter (born 1793)
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)^[4]
- Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (born 1785)
November 2 – Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (born 1779)^[5]
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)