1829 in art

Events

• 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1829 opens at Somerset House in London
• November – Thomas Hornor's Panoramic view of London, the largest panoramic painting ever created, is completed in the London Colosseum, purpose-designed by Decimus Burton in Regent's Park.
• December – The final issue of The Yankee magazine by art critic John Neal is published.
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.

Works

Paintings

• Giuseppe Bezzuoli – The Entrance of Charles VIII into Florence
• John Constable – Hadleigh Castle
• Paul Delaroche – The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhône
• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – A View towards the Swedish Coast from the Ramparts of Kronborg Castle
• William Etty
  • Benaiah
  • Hero and Leander
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – Punch or May Day
• William Heath – Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution
• George Jones
  • The Battle of Borodino
  • Nelson Boarding the San Josef
• Christen Købke – View of Århus Cathedral
• Cornelis Kruseman – Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch
• Eugène Lami – Charles I Receiving a Rose
• Edwin Henry Landseer
  • Attachment
  • Low Life and High Life
  • The Illicit Highland Whisky Still
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of Maria II
  • Portrait of Jeffry Wyatville
  • Portrait of John Soane
• Bernardo López Piquer – Maria Isabel of Braganza
• David Roberts – The Departure of the Israelites
• John Simpson – Portrait of Clarkson Stanfield
• J. M. W. Turner
  • The Banks of the Loire
  • The Loretto Necklace
  • Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
• David Wilkie – George IV in Highland Dress

Sculpture

• Francis Chantrey – Bust of John Soane
• John Hogan – The Dead Christ
• Carlo Marochetti – Young Girl Playing with a Dog
• Robert Mills – Washington Monument (Baltimore)

Births

• February 20 – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (died 1906)
• March 1 – Adolf Seel, German painter (died 1907)
• March 5 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (died 1905)
• June 8 – John Everett Millais, English painter (died 1896)
• July 18 – Paul Dubois, French sculptor and painter (died 1905)
• July 25 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet (died 1862)
• August 19 – Edward Moran, American marine painter (died 1901)
• September 12 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (died 1880)
• September 16 – Achille Emperaire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (died 1898)
• November 20 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter (died 1883)
• date unknown – John Lewis Brown, French painter (died 1890)

Deaths

• January 6 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter (born 1747)
• February 4 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters (born 1759)
• March 21 – George Engleheart, English miniaturist (born 1752)
• March 24 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist (born 1770)
• May 24 – Michał Ceptowski, Bavarian-born stucco artist who settled and worked in Poland (born 1765)
• June 25 – Joseph Bergler the Younger, Austrian-born painter and etcher who settled and worked in Bohemia (born 1753)
• July 14 – Joseph Kreutzinger, Austrian portrait painter (born 1757)
• September 22 – Jes Bundsen, Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher (born 1766)
• September 27 – Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver (born 1763)
• November 12 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter (born 1754)
• date unknown
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, Russian painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (born 1771)
  • Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter (born 1763)
  • Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman (born 1796)
  • Gai Qi, Chinese poet and painter (born 1774)
  • Zhang Yin, Chinese Qing dynasty calligrapher and painter (born 1761)

References

References

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