1819 in art
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Events in the year 1819 in art.
Events
- 3 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819 opens at Somerset House in London.[1]
- 25 August to 30 September â Paris Salon of 1819.[2]
- November â The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.[3]
- unknown date â The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.[4]
Works


- Washington Allston â The Flight of Florimell
- Vincenzo Camuccini â Portrait of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies[5]
- John Constable â The Gathering Storm
- Marie Ellenrieder â Self-portrait as a painter
- John Flaxman â Statue of Sir John Moore
- Caspar David Friedrich â On a Sailing Ship
- Théodore Géricault â The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson â Pygmalion and Galatea
- Francisco Goya
- Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin â Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
- Louis Hersent â Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres â
- Jérôme-Martin Langlois â Generosity of Alexander
- Thomas Lawrence
- Louis-François Lejeune â Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
- John Martin â The Fall of Babylon
- Samuel Morse â Portrait of James Monroe
- Joseph Paelinck â William I of the Netherlands
- Thomas Phillips â Portrait of the Earl of Durham
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon â The Dream of Happiness
- Henry Raeburn â Francis MacNab, The MacNab
- Pierre Révoil â Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
- Edward Villiers Rippingille â The Post Office
- Bertel Thorvaldsen â Christ and the Twelve Apostles
- John Trumbull â Declaration of Independence
- J. M. W. Turner
- Horace Vernet
Births
- January 6 â Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
- January 9 â William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)[7]
- February 8 â John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)[8]
- February 16 â Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875)
- February 23 â John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904)
- March 20 â Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869)[9]
- June 3 â Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
- June 10 â Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)[10]
- June 16 â Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
- June 23 â Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)[11]
- August 11 â Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)[12]
- June 28 â Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916)[13]
- September 20 â Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856)[14]
- December 6 â Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857)[15]
- December 19 â Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895)
- date unknown â Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904)
Deaths
- January 15 â Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher (born 1779)[16]
- February 16 â Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
- March 4 â Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
- May 2 â Mary Moser, English painter (born 1744)
- May 10 â Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
- May 19 â Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)[17]
- May 21 â Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
- June 23 â Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)[18]
- July 10 â Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
- July 31 â Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
- August â Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)[19]
- August 1 â Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
- August 27 â John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
- September 15 â Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
- October 8 â William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller (born 1740)[20]
- November 2 â Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)[21]
- November 5 â Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
- November 11 â Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
- December 3 â Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
- date unknown
- Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
- Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
- Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste (born 1776)