Events from the year 1835 in art.

• June 6 – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is received into the Roman Catholic Church.^[1]
• June – Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first stroke, which restricts his ability to paint in oils.^[2]
• August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.^[3]
• Victor Cousin introduces the expression "L'art pour l'art" ("Art for art's sake").
• Marie Tussaud establishes the first permanent Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.

• George Field – Chromatography; or, a Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of their Powers in Painting.^[4]

• Théodore Chassériau
  • Aline Chassériau
  • Self-portrait
• Léon Cogniet – The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte (ceiling at Musée du Louvre, Paris)
• John Constable – The Valley Farm
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
  • Hagar in the Desert
  • Venise, La Piazetta
• William Etty – Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Giant Mountains
  • The Stages of Life
  • Willow Bush under a Setting Sun
• Christen Købke
  • Frederiksborg Palace in the Evening Light
  • One of the Small Towers on Frederiksborg Castle
  • Roof Ridge of Frederiksborg Castle
• John Linnell – Christ's Appearance to the Two Disciples Journeying to Emmaus
• James Arthur O'Connor – The Poachers
• John Orlando Parry – The Poster Man
• Ary Scheffer – Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil (original version)
• J. M. W. Turner
  • The Bright-Stone of Honour (Ehrenbreitstein) and Tomb of Marceau, from Byron's "Childe Harold"
  • The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – Wolfgangsee
• David Wilkie – Columbus in the Convent at La Rabida

• January 3 – Fanny Cornforth, born Sarah Cox, English artists' model (died 1909)
• March 31 – John La Farge, American painter and stained-glass artist (died 1910)
• May 11 – Stefano Bruzzi, Italian painter (died 1911)
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (died 1868)
• June 23 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born artists' model (died 1924)
• July 2 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (died 1921)
• December 9 – Raffaele Belliazzi, Italian sculptor (died 1917)
• date unknown – Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter especially of oriental themes (died 1884)

• February 13 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor (born 1792)
• March 20 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (born 1794)
• April 1 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (born 1771)
• April 4 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (born 1778)
• April 5 – Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher (born 1754)
• May 1 – Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (born 1768)^[5]
• May 15 – Pauline Auzou, French painter (born 1775)
• June 21 – Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (born 1762)
• June 25 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (born 1771)
• August 20 – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (born 1758)
• October 23 – Thomas Heaphy, English watercolour and portrait painter (born 1775)
• November 3 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (born 1764)
• November 17 – Carle Vernet, French painter (born 1758)
• December 1 – Charles Hayter, English painter (born 1761)
• December 2 – James Fittler, English engraver (born 1758)