1838 in art
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Events from the year 1838 in art.
Events
- April 8 â The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.
- May 7 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1838 opens at the National Gallery in London
- August 31 â Scottish-born scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs.
Works
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- Théodore Chassériau â Venus Anadyomene
- Edward William Cooke â Mont Saint Michel, Normandy
- Asher B. Durand â Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant
- Eugène Delacroix
- Cleopatra and the Peasant
- Convulsionists of Tangiers (completed)[1]
- Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (unfinished; later separated)
- The Death of Ophelia
- Nicolas Gosse â The Congress of Erfurt
- George Hayter â Queen Victoria Enthroned in the House of Lords
- Johann Peter Krafft â The Battle of Aspern-Essling
- John Linnell â Portrait of Sir Robert Peel
- Daniel Maclise â Merry Christmas in the Baron's Hall
- Louis Meijer â Self-portrait
- David Roberts â Chapel of Ferdinand and Isabella, Granada
- Thomas Sully â Portrait of Queen Victoria
- Clarkson Stanfield â Sands near Boulogne[2]
- J.M.W. Turner
- Horace Vernet
- David Wilkie
- William Wyon â young profile head of Queen Victoria on coins of the pound sterling
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Births
- March 14 â Hermann Kern, painter (died 1912)
- March 28 â Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (died 1921)
- May 15 â Nicolae Grigorescu, painter (died 1907)
- June 11 â Mariano Fortuny, painter (died 1874)
- June 24 â Jan Matejko, painter (died 1893)
- September 18 â Anton Mauve, painter (died 1888)
- November 18 â William Keith, painter (died 1911)
- November 28 â Alexander Opekushin, sculptor (died 1923)
- December 9 â Gerard Bilders, painter (died 1865)
- December 25 â Raffaello Sernesi, painter and medallist (died 1866)
- December 31 â Jules Dalou, sculptor (died 1902)
Deaths
- January 5 â Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (born 1760)
- January 8 â Josef Grassi, Austrian painter especially of portraits (born 1757)
- February 28 â Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (born 1764)
- March 2 â Benjamin Barker, landscape painter (born 1776)
- March 29 â Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver (born 1759)
- May 10 â José Aparicio, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period (born 1773)
- June 4 â Claude Ramey, sculptor (born 1754)
- August 5 â Anton Schimser, Polish sculptor of Austrian origin (born 1790)
- September 5 â Charles Percier, architect and designer (born 1764)
- November 9 â Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)
- November 29 â Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (born 1779)
- date unknown â John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter (born 1797)