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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Nelson's column is erected in Trafalgar Square, London.

Works

• Eugène Delacroix - Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (Louvre, Paris)
• Edwin Landseer - Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury (Chatsworth House, Derbyshire)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Slave Ship or Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life (National Gallery, Washington; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York)

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1840, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1840, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1840, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC

Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age, 1840, National Gallery of Art Washington, DC

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: F.E.V. Bazin.

Births

• April 22 - Odilon Redon, painter and graphic artist (d. 1916)
• May 28 - Hans Makart, painter and designer (d. 1884)
• August 14 - Briton Rivière, painter (d. 1920)
• September 27 - Thomas Nast, cartoonist (d. 1902)
• November 12 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (d. 1917)
• November 14 - Claude Monet, Impressionist painter (d. 1926)
• Timothy H. O'Sullivan, photographer of the American Civil War (d. 1882)

Deaths

• March 19 - Thomas Daniell, landscape painter (b. 1749)
• March 30 - Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (b. 1778)
• April 10 - Alexander Nasmyth, painter (b. 1758)
• May 7 - Caspar David Friedrich, painter (b. 1774)
• June 20 - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, flower painter (b. 1759)
• Carl Blechen - German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (b. 1798)
• Reverend John Thomson - minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, Scotland and landscape painter (b. 1778)