1817 in art

Events in the year 1817 in Art.

Events

• May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817 opens at Somerset House in London
• October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
• December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).^[1]
• unknown dates
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.^[2]
  • The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova.^[3]

Works

Miniature self-portrait by Autissier. In the foreground, the artist's pencils, brushes, and tools for painting miniatures can be seen. Watercolour on ivory, 19.1 × 13.5 cm (7.52 × 5.31 in), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

• Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
• François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
• Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
• Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
• John Constable
  • Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)^[4]
  • Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
• John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
• George Dawe – Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales^[5]
• François Gérard – Entry of Henry IV into Paris
• Antoine-Jean Gros – The Departure of Louis XVIII from the Tuileries Palace
• John James Halls – Portrait of George Cockburn
• George Henry Harlow – The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine
• George Hayter – The Tribute Money
• George Francis Joseph – Portrait of Stamford Raffles
• Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Uxbridge
• John Martin – The Bard
• Nicolas-André Monsiau – Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse
• Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book (c.)
• Thomas Phillips – The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
• Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
• J. M. W. Turner
  • The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
  • Raby Castle
• David Wilkie
  • Bathsheba at the Bath
  • Sheepwashing

Births

• January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
• February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)^[6]
• February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)^[7]
• February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
• March 1 – Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
• March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
• April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
• July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
• August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)^[8]
• August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)^[9]
• November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
• November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

Deaths

• March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)^[10]
• May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
• June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
• June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
• September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
• September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
• October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
• November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
• November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
• December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
• December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
• date unknown
  • Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
  • Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)