1819 in art

Events

• 3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819 opens at Somerset House in London
• 25 August to 30 September – Paris Salon of 1819.
• November – The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.
• unknown date – The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.

Works

• Washington Allston – The Flight of Florimell
• John Constable – The Gathering Storm
• Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
• John Flaxman – Statue of Sir John Moore
• Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
• Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
• Francisco Goya
  • The Madhouse
  • Portrait of Juan Antonio Cuervo
  • A Procession of Flagellants
  • A Village Bullfight
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
  • Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
  • Niccolò Paganini
• Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Generosity of Alexander
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of Archduke Charles
  • Portrait of Francis I of Austria
  • Portrait of Napoleon II
  • Portrait of Prince Schwarzenberg
  • Portrait of Pope Pius VII
  • Portrait of Selina Meade
• Louis-François Lejeune – Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
• John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
• Samuel Morse – Portrait of James Monroe
• Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of the Earl of Durham
• Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Dream of Happiness
• Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
• Pierre Révoil – Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
• Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Post Office
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner
  • England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday
  • Entrance of the Meuse
• Horace Vernet
  • Massacre of the Mamelukes
  • The Dog of the Regiment Wounded
  • The Wounded Trumpeter

Births

• January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
• January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)
• February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875)
• February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904)
• March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869)
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)
• June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)
• August 11 – Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)
• June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916)
• September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856)
• December 6 – Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857)
• December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895)
• date unknown – Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904)

Deaths

• January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher (born 1779)
• February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
• March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
• May 2 – Mary Moser, English painter (born 1744)
• May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
• May 19 – Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)
• May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
• June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)
• July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
• July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
• August – Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)
• August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
• August 27 – John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
• September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
• October 8 – William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller (born 1740)
• November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)
• November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
• November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
• December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
• date unknown
  • Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
  • Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
  • Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste (born 1776)

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