1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events[edit]

• Sir Thomas Lawrence goes to Aachen to paint those present at the third congress.

Works[edit]

• Augustus Wall Callcott – The Mouth of the Tyne
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
  • Seaside by Moonlight
  • Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
• Hiroshige
  • Eight Views of Omi
  • Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu
• Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
• William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
• David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding

Births[edit]

• January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
• January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)
• January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
• April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
• April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
• May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
• June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
• June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
• December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
• probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)

Deaths[edit]

• January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)
• February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
• March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
• March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)
• August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)
• October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
• November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
• November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)
• November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
• December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)
• date unknown
  • George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)
  • Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)
  • Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734)