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Works

• Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning
• William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World
• Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia

Births

• April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
• Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (d. 1901)

Deaths

• February 10 - Samuel Prout, watercolour painter (b. 1783)
• 30 May - George Chinnery, painter (b. 1774)
• August 4 - Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (b. 1801)
• August 14 - Eberhard Wächter, painter (b. 1762)
• September 14 - Augustus Pugin, architect, illustrator, and designer (b. 1812)
• September 20 - William Finden, engraver (b. 1787)
• September 23 - John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (b. 1775)
• December 18 - Horatio Greenough, sculptor (b. 1805)