1831 in art
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Events from the year 1831 in art.
Events
- May 1 - The Salon of 1831 opens in Paris.
- May 2 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1831 opens at Somerset House in London
- June 21 â The North Carolina State House is razed in a blaze and therein the roof collapses on Antonio Canova's 1820 statue of George Washington, smashing it to pieces.[1]
- October 29â31 â The 1831 Bristol riots in England are observed by local artist William James Müller who paints a series of sketches of the city in flames.
- December â Clarkson Stanfield's spectacular panorama Venice and Its Adjacent Islands is staged in London as part of the annual Christmas pantomime.[2]
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- John Constable, in charge of hanging the Royal Academy of Arts' annual exhibition in London, at the last minute gives his own Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows a prominent position in place of J. M. W. Turner's Caligula's Palace and Bridge.[3]
- Publication of John Martin's mezzotint illustrations to The Bible begins.
- The New Society of Painters in Water Colours is established in London.
Works
- Sir William Beechey â Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
- Karl Blechen â Tivoli Gardens at the Villa d'Este
- Léon Cogniet â Jean-François Champollion
- John Constable â Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
- Massimo d'Azeglio â The Battle of Legnano[4]
- Eugène Delacroix â A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother
- Paul Delaroche â King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London
- Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet â Portrait of the Marchioness of Londonderry
- William Etty â Window in Venice During a Festa[5]
- Caspar David Friedrich - The Great Enclosure
- Joseph von Führich â Triumph of Christ (RaczyÅski Palace, Berlin)
- Francesco Hayez
- Hiroshige â Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
- Eugène Isabey â The Port of Dunkirk
- Edwin Landseer â A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society
- Charles Robert Leslie â My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman
- Ivan Martos â Alexander I Statue in Taganrog
- William Mulready â Cargill and Touchwood
- James Northcote â Chess Players
- Henry William Pickersgill â Portrait of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Camille Roqueplan â Coast Scene with Figures
- Clarkson Stanfield â Portsmouth Harbour
- J.M.W. Turner
- Richard Westmacott â "The Copper Horse" (equestrian statue of George III of the United Kingdom, Windsor Great Park)
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Births
- February 23 â Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (died 1915)
- March 12 â Benjamin Williams Leader (born Benjamin Leader Williams), English landscape painter (died 1923)
- July 3 â Jacques Ãmile Ãdouard Brandon, French artist (died 1897)
- July 21 â Martha Maxwell, American naturalist and artist (died 1881)
- July 28 â J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (died 1898)
- August 14 â Adolf von Becker, Finnish-born painter (died 1909)
- October 26 â Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (died 1917)
- October 31 â Paul Durand-Ruel, French art dealer (died 1922)
- December 7 â Joanna Mary Boyce, English painter (died 1861)
Deaths
- January 6 â RyÅkan, Japanese SÅtÅ Zen Buddhist monk poet and calligrapher (born 1758)
- February 2 â Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (born 1768)
- February 17 â William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (born 1771)
- March 22 â John Warwick Smith, British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator (born 1749)
- April 8 â Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (born 1746)
- May 8 â Emanuel Thelning, Swedish-born, Finnish painter (born 1767)
- May 24 â James Peale, American miniaturist and still-life painter, a younger brother of Charles Willson Peale (born 1749)
- May 25 â Mather Brown, portrait and historical painter (born 1761)
- June 1 â John Jackson, English portrait painter (born 1778)
- June 12 â Pierre Cartellier, French sculptor (born 1757)
- June 18 â Francesco Manno, Italian painter and architect (born 1754)
- July 11 â Richard Duppa, English writer and draughtsman (born 1770)
- July 13 â James Northcote, English painter (born 1746)
- August 5 â Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III (born 1755)
- August 17 â Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (born 1787)
- August 27 â François Dumont, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1751)
- September 15 â Christian David Gebauer, Danish animal painter and etcher (born 1777)
- September 17 â Joseph Lange, actor and amateur painter (born 1751)
- November 5 â Johan Frederik Clemens, Danish etcher and printmaker (born 1749)
- November 19 â Carl Conjola, German landscape painter (born 1773)
- December 17 â Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, and influential intellectual (born 1776)