Events from the year 1843 in art.

• August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, commits patricide.
• The Hill & Adamson photographic partnership is formed in Edinburgh.
• John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.

• Berlin Peace Column
• Madison Square Fountain, New York City
• Théodore Chassériau – The Two Sisters
• Gustave Courbet – The Desperate Man (self-portrait; approximate date)
• Paul Delaroche – Charles de Rémusat
• William Etty – Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (first version)
• Julius Exner – Fra Kunstakademiets figursal ("From the Art Academy's Plaster Cast Collection")
• Sir George Hayter
  • Self-portrait
  • The House of Commons, 1833
• Paul Falconer Poole – Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of 1665
• Hiram Powers – The Greek Slave
• J. M. W. Turner – Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
• Peter von Hess – The Battle of Borodino
• Franz Xaver Winterhalter
  • Leonilla Bariatinskaia Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
  • Queen Victoria (British Royal Collection)

• March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter (died 1923)
• March 14 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (died 1884)
• April 4 – William Henry Jackson, American explorer, photographer and painter (died 1942)
• April 8 – Howard Roberts, Philadelphia-based sculptor (died 1900)
• June 16 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (died 1904)
• July 19 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (died 1894)
• September 6 – Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, English archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
• September 25 – Maria Spanò, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
• November 16 – Louise Jopling, English painter (died 1933)
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer (died 1932)
• date unknown
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (died 1897)
  • Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (died 1898)

• January 17 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (born 1776)^[1]
• January 20 – William Sawrey Gilpin, English watercolour painter (born 1762)
• Between February 21 and 28 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (born 1770)
• April 13 – Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter (born 1786)
• July 9 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (born 1779)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (born 1769)^[2]
• July 23 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (born 1784)
• August 12 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (born 1787)
• October 24 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (born 1754)
• November 10 – John Trumbull, American painter (born 1756)
• November 27 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (born 1779)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (born 1777)
  • Hasegawa Settan, Japanese painter and wood sculptor during the late Edo period (born unknown)
  • Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)