1818 in art
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Events in the year 1818 in Art.
Events
- 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London
- 29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.[1]
Works
- Jean Alaux – The Studio of Ingres in Rome
- William Beechey – Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge
- Augustus Wall Callcott – The Mouth of the Tyne
- John Constable – Willy Lott's House from the Stour
- Charles de Steuben – Napoleon's Return from Elba
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Théodore Géricault – Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
- Hiroshige
- Eight Views of Omi
- Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
- Antoine-Jean Gros – The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci[2]
- Thomas Lawrence
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- Rolinda Sharples – The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms
- Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
- William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
- David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding
Births
- January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
- January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)
- January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
- April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
- April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
- May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
- June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
- June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
- December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
- probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)
Deaths
- January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)
- February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
- March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)[4]
- March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
- March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)[5]
- April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)[6]
- August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)
- October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
- November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
- November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)[7]
- November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
- December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)
- date unknown – Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734)[8]
References
- ^ Williams, D.E (1831). The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Colburn. p. 108.
- ^ "Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci". Petit Palais. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ Beatrice De Graaf (2020). Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815. Cambridge University Press. p. 178.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1887). "Cotes, Samuel". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 284.
- ^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "The Wilkinson Tracings". Birmingham Museums. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. p. 126.