Events from the year 1842 in art. Events David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land (chromolithographs). Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke. Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries. George Hayter granted a knighthood. William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. George R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire. Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands. Grand sale of contents of Strawberry Hill House near London. Works Thomas Brigstocke – Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth Brother Ford Madox Brown – Manfred on the Jungfrau Théodore Chassériau – The Descent from the Cross Thomas Cole – The Voyage of Life (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Gustave Courbet – Self-Portrait with a Black Dog Richard Dadd – Come unto these Yellow Sands Johan Christian Dahl Frogner Manor View from Stalheim William Powell Frith – Dolly Varden Benjamin Haydon – Wordsworth on Helvellyn Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry Odalisque with Slave Daniel Maclise – The Play-scene in Hamlet Thomas Phillips – Michael Faraday J. M. W. Turner Peace – Burial at Sea Snowstorm – steam boat off a harbour's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Rigi series of watercolours Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Portrait of Prince Albert Births June 12 – Harry Hems, English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor (died 1916) October 18 – Sydney Prior Hall, English portraitist and illustrator (died 1922) November 29 – William Blake Richmond, English painter and interior decorator (died 1921) December 16 – Otto Sinding, Norwegian painter (died 1909) December 18 – William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (died 1900) December 31 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931) Deaths March 16 - Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (born 1774) March 30 – Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter (born 1755) May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799) May 26 – James Stuart, Irish-Australian painter (born 1802) July 7 – Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (born 1759) July 28 – John Sell Cotman, English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (born 1782) August 28 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (born 1796) September 11 – Charles Codman, landscape painter of