Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
1818 in art
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Events in the year 1818 in Art.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2025) |
Events
- 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London. [1]
- 29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.[2]
Works




- 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
- Henry Howard – The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte[3]
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci[4]
- Thomas Lawrence
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
- William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
- David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding
Remove ads
Births
- January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
- January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)[6]
- 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)[citation needed]
- February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
- March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)[7]
- March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
- March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)[8]
- April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)[9]
- 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)[10]
- 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)[11]
Remove ads
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads