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EVENTS

Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy .

WORKS

George Catlin - ''Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls''

Thomas Cole - ''Autumn in the Catskills''

John Constable - ''The Cornfield''

Eugène Delacroix - ''Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi''

BIRTHS

April 2 - William Holman Hunt , pre-Raphaelite painter

October 31 - William Morris Hunt , architect and designer

DEATHS

February 22 - Charles Willson Peale , painter

August 12 - William Blake , English painter, poet and engraver