1834 in art

Events

• October 16 – Burning of Parliament in London witnessed by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and Augustus Pugin

  Works

Paintings

• Thomas Cole – :File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire The Savage State 1836.jpg|The Savage State and :File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire The Arcadian or Pastoral State 1836.jpg|The Arcadian or Pastoral State from The Course of Empire
• Eugène Delacroix – The Women of Algiers
• Edward Hicks – Peaceable Kingdom
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian
• Thomas Luny – :File:Luny Thomas Battle Of The Nile August 1st 1798 At 10pm.jpg|Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm
• John Martin – :File:Martin, John - The Deluge - 1834.jpg|The Deluge
• J. M. W. Turner – The Fountain of Indolence

  Prints

• Hiroshige – The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
• Hokusai – One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

  Sculptures

• Francis Chantrey – Memorial to Mary Anne Boulton
• Antoine-Augustin Préault – The Killing

  Births

• February 15 – Paul Guigou, French painter
• February 28 – Léon Bonvin, French painter and watercolorist
• May 9 – Alexander Calandrelli, German sculptor
• July 6 – Joseph Boehm, Austrian-born sculptor
• July 10 – James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter
• July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor
• August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
• December 9 – Leopold Müller, German-born Austrian painter
• date unknown
• *Caspar Buberl, American sculptor
• *Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish-born literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor

  Deaths

• January 4 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School
• January 31 – Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter
• February 26 – Alois Senefelder, German actor, playwright and inventor of lithography
• March 30 – Rudolph Ackermann, German-born printer and lithographer
• March 31 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor
• April 27 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver
• June 4 – Robert Bowyer, English miniature painter and publisher
• August 7 – William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver
• c. August 13 – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born painter in the United States
• December 3 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher
• December 17 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter
• December 22 – Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist
• date unknown
• * Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter
• * Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter
• * Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter
• * Ulrika Melin, textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art