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EVENTS

February 7 - The Portland Vase is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.

WORKS

Jan August Hendrik Leys - ''Franz Floris se rendant a une fête''

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Portrait of Countess Haussonville

BIRTHS

July 4 - Edmonia Lewis , sculptor

October 30 - Antonin Mercié , sculptor and painter

''date unknown'' - Adolf Oberländer , caricaturist

DEATHS

January 5 - Robert Smirke , painter

October 16 - George Basevi , architect (fell from tower of Ely Cathedral)