1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events

• 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London.
• 29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.

Works

• Jean Alaux – The Studio of Ingres in Rome
• William Beechey – Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge
• René Théodore Berthon – Portrait of Lady Morgan
• 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
• William Etty – Manlius Hurled From The Rock
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
• Seaside by Moonlight
• Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
• Théodore Géricault – '
• Antoine-Jean Gros – The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac
• Henry Howard – The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
• Philip V of Spain Investing Marshal Berwick with the Golden Fleece
• Thomas Lawrence
• Portrait of Alexander I of Russia
• Portrait of Count Nesselrode
• Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu
• Portrait of Frances Vane
• Portrait of Frederick William III of Prussia
• Portrait of Karl von Hardenberg
• Jan Willem Pieneman – The Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
• Rolinda Sharples – The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms
• Thomas Sully – '
• William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
• David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding

Births

• January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
• January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)
• 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)
• February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
• March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)
• March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
• March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)
• April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)
• 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)
• 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)

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