1845 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 7 - The Portland Vase is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.

[edit] Works

• Jan August Hendrik Leys - Franz Floris se rendant a une fête
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Portrait of Countess Haussonville

[edit] Births

• July 4 - Edmonia Lewis, sculptor
• October 30 - Antonin Mercié, sculptor and painter
• date unknown - Adolf Oberländer, caricaturist

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - Robert Smirke, painter
• October 16 - George Basevi, architect (fell from tower of Ely Cathedral)