1817 in art
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Events in the year 1817 in Art.
Events
- May 5 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817 opens at Somerset House in London
- October 5 â Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
- December 28 â English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).[1]
- unknown dates
- Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.[2]
- The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova.[3]
Works
- Martin Archer Shee
- Louis-Marie Autissier â Miniature self-portrait
- François Joseph Bosio â Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
- Antonio Canova â The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
- Francis Chantrey â The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
- John Constable
- John Crome â Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
- George Dawe â Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales[7]
- François Gérard â Entry of Henry IV into Paris
- Antoine-Jean Gros â The Departure of Louis XVIII from the Tuileries Palace
- John James Halls â Portrait of George Cockburn
- George Henry Harlow â The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine
- George Hayter â The Tribute Money
- George Francis Joseph â Portrait of Stamford Raffles
- Orest Kiprensky â Young Gardener
- Thomas Lawrence
- John Martin â The Bard
- Nicolas-André Monsiau â Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse
- François-Joseph Navez â Portrait of Jacques-Louis David
- Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book (c.)
- Thomas Phillips â The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon â Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- J. M. W. Turner
- David Wilkie
Births
- January 29 â John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
- February 15 â Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)[8]
- February 23 â George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)[9]
- February 28 â Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
- March 1 â Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
- March 7 â Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
- April 4 â P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
- July 1 â John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
- August 1 â Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)[10]
- August 4 â Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)[11]
- November 3 â Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
- November 22 â François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)
Deaths
- March 27 â Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)[12]
- May 10 â Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
- June â Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
- June 4 â Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
- September â Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
- September 8 â John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
- October 13 â Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
- November 5 â Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
- November 8 â Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
- December 20 â Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
- December 27 â Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
- date unknown
- Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
- JoaquÃn Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)
