1825 in art

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.
• End of year – John Constable formally ends his business relationship with his French dealer, John Arrowsmith.

Works

• Filippo Albacini – The Wounded Achilles (marble)
• Richard Parkes Bonington
  • On the Seine near Mantes
  • The Château of the Duchess of Berry
• Mather Brown – The Battle of the Nile
• John Constable
  • Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath
  • The Leaping Horse
• Robert Dampier – Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii
• Eugène Delacroix – Tam O'Shanter
• John Doyle – Turning out the Stag
• William Etty – The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished
• Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard – Diane de Poitiers in the Studio of Jean Goujon
• François Gérard – Coronation Portrait of Charles X
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of the Duchess of Berry
  • Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême
• Louis-François Lejeune – Entry of Charles X into Paris after his coronation
• John Martin – Mezzotint illustrations to the Paradise Lost of Milton (publication begins)
• Samuel Morse – Portrait of Lafayette
• Alexander Nasmyth – Princes Street
• Samuel Palmer – Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of John Franklin
• Martinus Rørbye – View from the Artist's Window
• Clarkson Stanfield – Lake Como
• J.M.W. Turner – The Harbour of Dieppe
• 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)
• 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)
• February 24 – Toyokuni, Japanese master of ukiyo-e, especially Kabuki actor prints (born 1769)
• 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)
• May 5 – François-Louis Gounod, French painter (born 1758)
• May 21 – Pierre-Charles Jombert, French painter (born 1748)
• June 1 – Giovanni Monti, Italian landscape painter (born 1765)
• June 13 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (born 1742)
• 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)
• November 17 – Daniel Berger, German engraver (born 1744)
• December 29 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (born 1748)

References

References

1. "Charles X (1757-1836), King of France 1825".
2. Anthony Bailey. (2012). "John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own". Random House.
3. "On the Seine near Mantes".
4. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/le-chateau-de-la-duchesse-de-berry-46819
5. "Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath".
6. (1999). "Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900: Volume 1: 1780-1830". University of Hawaii Press.
7. (2011). "William Etty: Art & Controversy". Philip Wilson Publishers.
8. https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE008466
9. Michael Levey. (1979). "Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830". National Portrait Gallery.
10. (2009). "Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800–1850". Stanford University Press.
11. "Princes Street with the Commencement of the Building of the Royal Institution".
12. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stanfield-lake-como-n00406
13. Powell, Cecelia. Turner's Rivers of Europe: The Rhine, Meuse and Mosel. Tate Gallery, 1991 p.39
14. Haverkamp, Frode. (January 1992). "Hans Gude". [[Aschehoug]].
15. "Benezit Dictionary of Artists".
16. David Waterhouse. (1975). "Images of Eighteenth Century Japan: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Sir Edmund Walker Collection". Royal Ontario Museum.
17. "Scientist of the Day - Dominique-Vivant Denon".
18. "''The Punishment of the Arrogant Niobe by Diana and Apollo''". [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].
19. Charlotte Jacob-Hanson. (September 1998). "Johann Peter Melchior, Master Modeller". The Magazine Antiques.
20. "Barbara Krafft".
21. Philippe Bordes. (2005). "Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile". Yale University Press.