1811 in art
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Events in the year 1811 in Art.
Events
- 29 April â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 opens at Somerset House in London.[1]
Works
- Caspar David Friedrich â Morning on the Riesengebirge[2]
- François Gérard â Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte[3]
- Thomas Lawrence â Portrait of George Hibbert[4]
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière â Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens
- Francesco Hayez â Aristotle
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres â Jupiter and Thetis
- Georg Friedrich Kersting â Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio
- J. M. W. Turner
- David Wilkie â The Village Holiday
Births
- January 2 â UroÅ¡ KneževiÄ, Serbian painter (d. 1876)
- March 20 â George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (died 1879)
- April 5 â Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)
- May 11 â Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1893)
- May 15 â Katarina IvanoviÄ, Serbian painter (died 1882)
- July 28 â Charles West Cope, English genre painter (died 1890)[5]
- December 3 â Eduard Bendemann, German painter (died 1889)[6]
- unknown date
- Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer (died 1888)
- Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor (died 1860)
- Auguste Ottin, French sculptor (died 1890)
- Pierre Ãtienne Rémillieux, French painter (died 1856)
Deaths
- January 8 â Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1753)[7]
- January 10
- Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (born 1760)
- Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver (born 1736)
- January 12 â Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (born 1776)[8]
- January 21 â Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter (born 1728)
- February 19 â JoaquÃn Inza y Ainsa, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1736)
- March 1 â Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (born 1743)
- March 4 â Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits (born 1754)
- April 28 â Johann Baptist Drechsler, Austrian painter of flowers (born 1766)
- May 1 â John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (born 1740)[9]
- July 16 â Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher (born 1757)
- July 28 â Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist (born 1752/1754)
- September 16 â Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher (born 1748)
- September 30 â Antoine Raspal, French painter (born 1738)[10]
- October 5 â Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter (born 1751)
- October 15 â Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and politician (born 1735)[11]
- December 22 â François Devosge, French portrait painter (born 1732)
- date unknown â George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter (born 1752)
