1827 in art
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Events in the year 1827 in Art.
Events
- 7 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827 opens at Somerset House in London
- Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.[1]
- John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.[2]
- English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings The Mock Election and Chairing the Member.
- Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.[3]
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Works
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- William Blake â The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides[4]
- Henry Perronet Briggs â The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians
- Karl Briullov â Italian Midday
- Augustus Wall Callcott â Dead Calm
- Thomas Campbell
- Bust of Henry Raeburn
- Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
- George Catlin â Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
- Thomas Cole â Autumn in the Catskills
- William Collins â A Frost Scene
- John Constable
- Eugène Delacroix
- Charles Lock Eastlake
- Jean-François Garneray â The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
- François Gérard - The Coronation of Charles X
- Francisco Goya (attributed) â The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
- Benjamin Robert Haydon â The Mock Election
- Francesco Hayez â Bathsheba
- François Joseph Heim â Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
- Hokusai â wood-block print series (1827â1830)
- A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
- Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres â The Apotheosis of Homer
- George Jones â Banquet in the Thames Tunnel
- Orest Kiprensky â Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
- Edwin Landseer
- Thomas Lawrence
- Patrick Nasmyth â View of Bristol
- François Rude â Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos (model for bronze casting)
- John Simpson â The Captive Slave
- J.M.W. Turner
- Horace Vernet
- David Wilkie â I Pifferari
Births
- February 13 â Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (died 1911)
- April 2 â William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
- May 1
- Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter (died 1900)
- August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (died 1852)
- May 11 â Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (died 1875)
- June 21 â Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (died 1902)
- October 19 â Charles Cordier, French sculptor (died 1905)
- Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (died 1900)
- Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer (died 1913)
Deaths
- February 22 â Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)[6]
- March 25 â Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
- April 21 â Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
- May 6 â François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (born 1772)
- August 12 â William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (born 1757)
- December 23 â John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (born 1776)
- date unknown
- Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
- Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)