Events from the year 1851 in art. Events March – English sculptor Frederick Scott Archer makes public the wet plate collodion photographic process. May 1 – The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace, London. Works of art on display include the Tara Brooch, handicrafts and ornaments by the Sindhis, an electrotype of John Evan Thomas' sculpture Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent, and a demonstration by makers of Bristol blue glass. Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo opens in Brescia, Italy. Missions Héliographiques established by Prosper Mérimée to photograph historical French architecture. Works Edward Hodges Baily – Peel Memorial, Bury (sculpture) John Bell – sculptures at The Great Exhibition Andromeda The Eagle Slayer (cast iron) Una and the Lion Charles Allston Collins – Convent Thoughts Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – La Danse des Nymphes Jean-Léon Gérôme - Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer Francesco Hayez Antonietta Tarsis Basilico Matilde Juva-Branca The Meditation (second version) William Holman Hunt – The Hireling Shepherd Sir Edwin Landseer Monarch of the Glen Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream Frederick Richard Lee – Shattered Oak in Bedfordshire Emanuel Leutze – Washington Crossing the Delaware Daniel Maclise – Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster John Jabez Edwin Mayall – The Lord's Prayer (daguerrotype) John Everett Millais Mariana The Return of the Dove to the Ark Karl Heinrich Möller – Athena Arms the Warrior (sculpture, Berlin) Soma Orlai Petrich – The Corpse of Louis II Richard Redgrave – The Outcast Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies him her Salutation Théophile Schuler – The Chariot of Death (painting, begun in 1848) Rebecca Solomon – The Governess John Thomas – Charity (sculpture) Franz Xaver Winterhalter – The First of May, 1851 Publications John Leech – The Comic History of Rome Edward Lear – Journal of a Landscape Painter in Albania John Ruskin – Pre-Raphaelitism Births January 17 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (died 1928) January 28 – Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (died 1913) February 3 – Wilhelm Trübner, German realist painter (died 1917) April 19 – Đorđe Krstić, one of the leading three Serbian Realist painters (along with Uroš Predić and Paja Jovanović) (died 1907) July 23 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian painter (died 1909) October 2 – Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (died 1929) October 13 – Charles Sprague Pearce, American painter (died