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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Publication of John Ruskin's book, Pre-Raphaelitism.

Works

• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - La Danse des Nymphes
• Frederick Richard Lee - Shattered Oak in Bedfordshire

Births

• January 17 - A. B. Frost, illustrator (d. 1928)
• February 3 - Wilhelm Trübner, painter (d. 1917)
• October 13 - Charles Sprague Pearce, painter (d. 1914)
• November 21 - Leslie Ward ("Spy"), cartoonist (d. 1922)

Deaths

• January 27 - John James Audubon, naturalist and painter (b. 1785)
• July 10 - Louis Daguerre, inventor of daguerreotype photography (b. 1787)
• November - Willis Buell, politician and portrait painter (b. 1790)
• December 19 - J. M. W. Turner - English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (b. 1775)
• Benjamin Duterreau, painter and engraver (b. 1767)
• Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (b. 1785)
• William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (b. 1795)