1820 in art
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Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
- April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).[1]
- Publication of William Blake's prophetic book of coloured engravings, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (commenced 1804), is completed in London with the first printing.[2]
Works
- William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
- William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
- Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway[3]
- William Collins – Young Anglers[4]
- Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)[5]
- John Constable
- George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
- Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
- William Etty
- Female Nude in a Landscape
- François Gérard – Portrait of the Duke of Berry
- Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
- Chester Harding – Portrait of Daniel Boone
- Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi[9]
- George Hayter
- Portrait of Lord Holland
- Venus Supported by Iris, Complaining to Mars
- William Hilton – Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana
- John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
- Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling[10]
- Edwin Landseer – Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller[11]
- Thomas Lawrence
- Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers[14]
- John Martin – Macbeth[15]
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Earl Grey
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)
- Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Beethoven
- John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
- J. M. W. Turner – Rome from the Vatican
- Horace Vernet – La Barrière de Clichy
- David Wilkie – Reading the Will
Births
- February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
- February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
- April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
- May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
- July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)[16]
- July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)[17]
- November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)[18]
- December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
- December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
- date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)[19]
Deaths
- January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
- March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
- March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
- March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)[20]
- March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)[21]
- May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
- May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)[22]
- September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
- October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)[23]
- date unknown
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)
References
- ↑ Kousser, Rachel (2005). "Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece". American Journal of Archaeology. 109 (2): 230. doi:10.3764/aja.109.2.227. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 40024510. S2CID 36871977.
- ↑ "Jerusalem". The William Blake Archive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ↑ "Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4397. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ "Young Anglers".
- ↑ "Reference at www.newsobserver.com".
- ↑ Tate. "'Hampstead Heath, with the House Called 'The Salt Box'', John Constable, c.1819–20". Tate. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
- ↑ "Harwich Lighthouse". Tate. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ↑ Amy Concannon, Amy, ed. (2025). Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals. Tate Publishing. p. 170.
- ↑ Michele Di Monte (2004). HAYEZ, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- ↑ Johann Kräftner (2004). Liechtenstein Museum: Classicism and Biedermeier. Liechtenstein Museum. p. 87.
- ↑ "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
- ↑ "Thomas Campbell". NPG. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
- ↑ "Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "Thomas Luny Battle of Algiers". Richard Gardner Antiques. Archived from the original on 2010-03-12. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
- ↑ Stuart Sillars (2006). Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720–1820. Cambridge University Press. p. 305.
- ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doulton, Sir Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 449–450.
- ↑ Munich. Schackgalerie (1911). Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia. G. Hirth. p. 69.
- ↑ "John F. Herring: Coaching Painter". The Carriage Journal. 43 (2). Carriage Assoc. of America: 60. March 2005.
- ↑ Charles Edwards Lester (1858). The Democratic Age: Statesmanship, Science, Art, Literature, and Progress. Hale, Valentine & Company. p. 204.
- ↑ Carl Clauß (1883). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 17. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 305–307.
- ↑ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 65 (2005), entry by Chiara Felicetti.
- ↑ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropaedia. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1988. p. 194.