1818 in art
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Events in the year 1818 in Art.
Events
- 4 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London. [1]
- 29 September â Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.[2]
Works




- Jean Alaux â The Studio of Ingres in Rome[3]
- William Beechey â Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge
- René Théodore Berthon â Portrait of Lady Morgan[4]
- Augustus Wall Callcott â The Mouth of the Tyne
- John Constable â Willy Lott's House from the Stour[5]
- Charles de Steuben â Napoleon's Return from Elba
- William Etty â Manlius Hurled From The Rock[6]
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Théodore Géricault â Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
- Antoine-Jean Gros â The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac
- Henry Howard â The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte[7]
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Lawrence
- Jan Willem Pieneman â The Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras[16]
- Thomas Phillips â Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- Rolinda Sharples â The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms[17]
- Thomas Sully â Major John Biddle
- William Turner â The Field of Waterloo
- David Wilkie
Births
- January 21 â Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
- January 26 â Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)[19]
- January 28 â Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
- April 3 â Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
- April 14 â Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
- May 24 â John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
- June 13 â Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
- June 21 â Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
- December 7 â Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
- probable â Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)
Deaths
- January 5 â Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)[citation needed]
- February 28 â Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)[20]
- March 7 â Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)[21]
- March 15 â Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
- March 24 â Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)[22]
- April â George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)[23]
- August 16 â Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)[24]
- October 4 â Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
- November 1 â Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
- November 5 â Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)[25]
- November 19 â Shiba KÅkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
- December 10 â Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)[26]
- date unknown â Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734)[27]