Events from the year 1848 in art. Events April 10 – John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, . September – John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the former's family home in Gower Street (London). c. October – The first frescoes of scenes from English literature in the Poets' Hall of the Palace of Westminster are completed: Charles West Cope's Griselda's first Trial of Patience and John Callcott Horsley's Satan touched by Ithuriel's Spear while whispering evil dreams to Eve. December 10 – The Leipzig Art Association opens the Städtische Museum. In Cambridge, England, the Fitzwilliam Museum's Founder's Building (designed by George Basevi and completed by C. R. Cockerell) is opened. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the Thorvaldsen Museum of sculpture (designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll) is opened. In England, John Webb Singer establishes the Frome Art Metal Works, a foundry that becomes Morris Singer. Works Ivan Aivazovsky – Battle of Chesma Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Den Danske Landsoldat Karl Bryullov – Self-portrait Charles West Cope – Cardinal Wolsey's Reception at Leicester Abbey David Cox – Crossing the Sands Thomas Crawford - Mexican Girl Dying Edward Hicks – The Cornell Farm Holman Hunt – The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness attending the Revelry, Eve of Saint Agnes Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Baronne de Rothschild August Kopisch – The Pontine Marshes at Sunset Emanuel Leutze - The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops Jean-François Millet The Winnower The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon (later covered by The Young Shepherdess in 1870 due to a scarcity of materials during the Franco-Prussian War; rediscovered in 1984 by x-ray at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts) Samuel Palmer – The Water Mill Ferdinand Richardt Frederiksborg Castle Kronborg Castle Théophile Schuler – The Chariot of Death (painting, completed in 1851) John Evan Thomas – Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture) Philipp Veit – Germania Births January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American painter (died 1933) February 18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933) March 1 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (died 1907) March 14 – Lise Tréhot, French art model died 1922) March 18 – Princess Louise, member of the British Royal Family and sculptor (died 1939) March 22 – Sarah Purser, Irish painter and stained-glass maker (died 1943) June 8 – Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist