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Events relating to british_art
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work
English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career
20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square
English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
Queen Victoria knights her favourite painter of animals, Edwin Landseer
English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch
Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics
John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin
US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life
48-year-old Julia Margaret Cameron is given a camera by her daughter, in the Isle of Wight, and decides to concentrate on portraits
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London
Whistler paints his mother and calls the picture Arrangement in Grey and Black
Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames
English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces
Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs
An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London
