See also: 1850 in art, other events of 1851, 1852 in art, list of years in art. See also: 1849 in art, other events of 1850, 1852 in art, list of years in art. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... See also: 1851 in art, other events of 1852, 1853 in art, list of years in art. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...

Events

• Publication of John Ruskin's book, Pre-Raphaelitism.

Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ...

Works

• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - La Danse des Nymphes

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. ...

Births

• January 17 - A. B. Frost, illustrator
• November 21 - Leslie Ward ("Spy"), cartoonist

January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 - June 22, 1928) was an early American illustrator, graphic artist, and comics writer. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Sir Leslie Ward (1851–1922) was a British portrait artist and caricaturist. ...

Deaths

• January 27 - John James Audubon, naturalist and painter
• July 10 - Louis Daguerre, inventor of daguerreotype photography
• December 19 - J. M. W. Turner, painter