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1827
 
    
English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career       
Palmer Coming from Evening Church (detail)
Tate Britain

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1832
 
   
French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art      
1832
 
    
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots       
Lear Parrot: ‘Microglossus aterrimus’ (detail) c.1830
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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c. 1835
 
   
A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains      
c. 1835
 
   
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East      
Edward Lear Corfu 1848?
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

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1838
 
    
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire       
Turner The Fighting Temeraire (detail) 1838
National Gallery, London

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1839
 
    
The French painter Gustave Courbet moves from his native town of Ornans to Paris       
1846
 
    
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons       
1848
 
     
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood        
Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella (detail)
Tate Britain

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1849
 
     
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin        
Rossetti The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (detail)
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