Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
Works
Births
- February 18 â Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
- February 28 â John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
- April 6 â Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
- May 12 â Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
- July 9 â John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)
- July 25 â Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
- November 23 â Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
- December â Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
- December 16 â George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
- date unknown â John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)
- Fabio Borbottoni, Italian painter of vedute (died 1902)
Deaths
- January 29 â George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
- March 8 â Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
- March 9 â Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
- March 11 â Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)
- March 27 â Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)
- May 17 â Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
- May 26 â Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)
- September 15 â Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
- October 10 â Uragami GyokudÃ
Â, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
- date unknown
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)
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