1825 in art

Events in the year 1825 in Art.

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Events

• 2 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1825 opens at Somerset House in London
• August – English portrait artist Thomas Lawrence begins work on his portrait of King Charles X of France, the first of two French royal portraits commissioned by King George IV of the United Kingdom.^[1]
• End of year – John Constable formally ends his business relationship with his French dealer, John Arrowsmith.^[2]

Works

The Trial of William Lord Russell by George Hayter.

Entry of Charles X into Paris on 6 June 1825 by Louis-François Lejeune.

View from the Artist's Window by Rørbye.

The Leaping Horse by John Constable

• Filippo Albacini – The Wounded Achilles (marble)
• Richard Parkes Bonington – On the Seine near Mantes^[3]
• Mather Brown – The Battle of the Nile
• John Constable
  • Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath^[4]
  • The Leaping Horse
• Robert Dampier – Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii^[5]
• Eugène Delacroix – Tam O'Shanter
• John Doyle – Turning out the Stag
• William Etty – The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished^[6]
• Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard – Diane de Poitiers in the Studio of Jean Goujon
• François Gérard – Coronation Portrait of Charles X^[7]
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of the Duchess of Berry^[8]
  • Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême
• Louis-François Lejeune – Entry of Charles X into Paris after his coronation^[9]
• John Martin – Mezzotint illustrations to the Paradise Lost of Milton (publication begins)
• Samuel Morse – Portrait of Lafayette
• Alexander Nasmyth – Princes Street^[10]
• Samuel Palmer – Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family
• Martinus Rørbye – View from the Artist's Window
• J.M.W. Turner – The Harbour of Dieppe^[11]
• Bartholomeus van Hove – Pompenburg with Hofpoort in winter

Births

• February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (died 1899)
• March 13 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (died 1903)^[12]
• May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist and illustrator (died 1916)
• May 9 – James Collinson, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1881)
• July 6 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (died 1892)
• July 10 – Benjamin Paul Akers, American sculptor (died 1861)
• August 12 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (died 1884)
• September 6 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (died 1908)
• September 13 – William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (died 1874)
• December 13 – Gerolamo Induno, Italian painter (died 1890)

Deaths

• January 11 – Jacopo Tumicelli, Italian portrait miniature painter (born 1784)^[13]
• February 24 – Toyokuni, Japanese master of ukiyo-e, especially Kabuki actor prints (born 1769)^[14]
• March 8 – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, French poet and painter from Brittany (born 1765)
• March 25 – Raphaelle Peale, American still-life painter (born 1774)
• April 6 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born portrait painter (born 1757)
• April 16 – Henry Fuseli, British painter and art critic (born 1741)
• April 23 – Friedrich Müller, German painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (born 1749)
• April 27 – Vivant Denon, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (born 1747)^[15]
• May 5 – François-Louis Gounod, French painter (born 1758)
• May 21 – Pierre-Charles Jombert, French painter (born 1748)^[16]
• June 1 – Giovanni Monti, Italian landscape painter (born 1765)
• June 13 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (born 1742)^[17]
• June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect and artist (born 1754)
• June 22 – Domenico Vantini, Italian painter specializing in miniature portraits (born 1765)
• September 28 – Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter (born 1764)^[18]
• November 17 – Daniel Berger, German engraver (born 1744)
• December 29 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (born 1748)^[19]