Events from the year 1843 in art. Events August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide. The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh. John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published. Works Berlin Peace Column Madison Square Fountain, New York City Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait; approximate date) Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version) Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection") Sir George Hayter – Self-portrait Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665 Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino Franz Xaver Winterhalter Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles) Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection) Births March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923) March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884) April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942) April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900) June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904) July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894) September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915) September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown) November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933) November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932) date unknown Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897) Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898) Deaths January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776) January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762) Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770) April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786) July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779) July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769) July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784) August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787) October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754) November 10 –