painter (died 1903) August 10 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (died 1892) August 19 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (died 1894) September 26 – Helen Allingham, English painter and illustrator (died 1926) October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and arts patron (died 1929) date unknown Giovanni Battista Amendola, Italian-born sculptor (died 1887) Helen Thornycroft, English painter (died 1937) Deaths January 14 – Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (born 1821) February 7 – Christen Købke, Danish painter (born 1810) February 11 – Thomas Cole, American landscape painter (born 1801) February 29 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (born 1775) March 23 – Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (born 1770) March 29 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (born 1803) May 17 – Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (born 1761) May 30 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (born 1774) June 28 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (born 1768) August 15 – Pyotr Sokolov, Russian aquarelle portraitist (born 1791) August 20 – Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (born 1790) November 14 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (born 1802) December 13 – John Ternouth, English sculptor (born 1796) References Years of the 19th century in art 1840s in art