1822 in art

Events in the year 1822 in Art.

Events

• 24 April – Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in Paris
• 6 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1822 opens at Somerset House in London
• Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph through his heliographic process.
• The Mauritshuis in The Hague opens to the public as a state art museum.
• Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner.

Paintings

• Louis-Léopold Boilly
• Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elysées
• Moving Day
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Smugglers Alarmed
• Alexander Carse – George IV Landing at Leith
• John Constable
• The Grove, Hampstead
• Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire
• Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead
• View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead
• View on the Stour near Dedham
• Yarmouth Jetty
• Francis Danby – View of the Avon Gorge
• Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante (first major work)
• John Doyle – The Life of a Racehorse (prints)
• Charles Lock Eastlake
• The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccino
• The Colosseum from the Esquiline
• William Etty – Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (first version)
• Caspar David Friedrich
• The Lonely Tree
• Moonrise by the Sea
• The Tree of Crows
• François Gérard – The Duchess of Berry and Her Children
• Théodore Géricault – portraits of insane inmates of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget.
• Insane Woman
• Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus
• Louis Hersent – Ruth
• George Jones
• The Banquet at the Coronation of George IV
• The Battle of Vittoria
• Orest Kiprensky – '
• Jérôme-Martin Langlois - Diana and Endymion
• Thomas Lawrence
• Portrait of the Countess of Blessington
• Portrait of George IV
• Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Moscow
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - The Oath of the Ancestors
• John Martin – The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Charles Meynier – Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles
• Samuel Morse – The House of Representatives
• Charles Willson Peale – The Artist in His Museum
• Pierre Paul Prud'hon – Crucifixion
• Pierre Révoil – '
• Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Recruiting Party
• Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas – Procession of Saint Januarius During an Eruption of Vesuvius
• J.M.W. Turner – George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh
• John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne
• Horace Vernet
• The Battle of Montmirail
• Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm
• David Wilkie – The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch

Sculpture

• Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain (marble)
• Lorenzo Bartolini – The Campbell Sisters dancing a Waltz (marble)
• Richard Westmacott – statue of Achilles (Wellington Monument, London)

Births

• February 16 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (died 1891)
• March 16 – Rosa Bonheur, French animal painter (died 1899)
• May 18? – Mathew Brady, American photographer (died 1896)
• June 1 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming, British portrait photographer (died 1865)
• August 27 – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)
• October 7 – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer (died 1898)

Deaths

• January 14 – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
• January 22 – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786)
• February 11 – Arthur William Devis, English painter of history paintings and portraits (born 1762)
• March 23 – Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin (born 1756)
• April 3 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
• April 17 – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (born 1735)
• May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, American portrait painter (born 1767)
• May 11 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1746)
• May 19 (bur.) – Daniel Havell, English engraver (born 1785)
• September 10 – Antoine Cardon, also known as Cardon the Elder, Belgian painter, portraitist and engraver (born 1739)
• September 24 – Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (born 1796)
• October 9 – Richard Earlom, English engraver (born 1742)
• October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (born 1757)
• October 25 – James Sowerby, English naturalist and illustrator (born 1757)
• November 17 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (born 1731)
• December 10 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist (born 1761)
• December 28 – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)
• date unknown
• Pierre Audouin, French engraver (born 1768)
• Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court (born 1754)
• Nathaniel Plimer, English miniaturist (born 1757)
• Mariano Ramón Sánchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (born 1740)

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