1827 in art

Events in the year 1827 in Art.

Events

• 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827 opens at Somerset House in London
• Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
• John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
• English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings ' and '.
• Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.

Works

• William Blake – '
• Henry Perronet Briggs – The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians
• Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Dead Calm
• Thomas Campbell
• Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
• George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
• Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
• William Collins – A Frost Scene
• John Constable
• Chain Pier, Brighton
• Vale of Health, Hampstead
• Eugène Delacroix
• '
• Death of Sardanapalus
• Still Life with Lobsters
• Charles Lock Eastlake
• Lord Byron's Dream
• Pilgrims Arriving in Sight of Rome
• Jean-François Garneray – '
• François Gérard - The Coronation of Charles X
• Francisco Goya (attributed) – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Mock Election
• Francesco Hayez – Bathsheba
• François Joseph Heim – Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
• Hokusai – wood-block print series (1827–1830)
• A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
• Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Apotheosis of Homer
• George Jones – Banquet in the Thames Tunnel
• Orest Kiprensky – '
• Edwin Landseer
• A Scene at Abbotsford
• The Monkey Who Had Seen the World
• Thomas Lawrence
• Portrait of the Duke of Clarence
• Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel
• Portrait of Rosamond Croker
• Patrick Nasmyth – View of Bristol
• François Rude – ' (model for bronze casting)
• John Simpson – The Captive Slave
• J.M.W. Turner
• Rembrandt's Daughter
• Scene in Derbyshire
• Horace Vernet
• The Battle of Bouvines
• Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings
• David Wilkie – I Pifferari