1816 in art
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Events in the year 1816 in Art.
Events
- February 5 â The bequest of the art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam to the University of Cambridge in England leads to the foundation of the Fitzwilliam Museum.[1]
- March 21 â In Paris, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (founded in 1648) is merged with the Académie de musique (1669) and the Académie royale d'architecture (1671) to form the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[2]
- June â The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London.[3] (â British Museum Act 1816)
- 26 October â Penance from Nicholas Poussin's first of two Seven Sacraments painting cycles owned by the Duke of Rutland is destroyed by fire at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, England.[4]
Works
- Cádiz Memorial (London)
- Edward Bird
- Augustus Wall Callcott â The Entrance to the Pool of London
- John James Chalon â Napoleon on board the Bellerophon
- John Constable
- Jacques-Louis David â Portrait of Ãtienne Maurice Gérard
- Arthur William Devis â Eliza O'Neill as Belvidera
- Pavel ÄurkoviÄ â Portrait of Vuk KaradžiÄ
- Girodet â Portrait of Jacques Cathelineau
- Francisco Goya
- Antoine-Jean Gros â Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin â Portrait of Henri de la Rochejaquelein
- Charles Robert Leslie â Portrait of John Quincy Adams
- John Linnell â Portrait of Richard Trevithick
- John Martin â Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon[5]
- Rolinda Sharples â The Artist and her Mother
- William Mulready â The Fight Interrupted
- Horace Vernet
Births
- February 22 â Thomas Gambier Parry, English artist and art collector (died 1888)
- March 18 â Antonio Salviati, Italian glassmaker (died 1890)
- May 24 â Emanuel Leutze, German American painter (died 1868)
- date unknown â Paul Emile Chappuis, French-born photographer (died 1887)
Deaths
- January 15 â Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (born 1750)
- February 19 â Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1763)
- June 12 â Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver (born 1742)
- June 16 â Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter (born 1741)
- July 7 â Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (born 1739)
- July 11 â Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (born 1746)
- July 23 â William Alexander, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1767)
- August 4 â François-André Vincent, French painter (born 1746)
- August 7 â François-Joseph Duret, French sculptor (born 1732)
- August 13 â Pehr Hilleström, Swedish painter and teacher (born 1732)
- August 26 â Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (born 1761)
- date unknown
- Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith (born 1759)
- Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (born 1732)
- François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (born 1744)