1820 in art

Events in the year 1820 in Art.

Events

April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).^[1]
Publication of William Blake's prophetic book of coloured engravings, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (commenced 1804), is completed in London with the first printing.^[2]

Works

Martin Archer Shee – The Painter's Son
William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway^[3]
Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)^[4]
John Constable
- Dedham Lock and Mill
- Hampstead Heath
- Harwich Lighthouse^[5]
- Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close
- Waterloo Bridge
George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
William Etty
- Female Nude in a Landscape
François Gérard – Portrait of the Duke of Berry
Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
Chester Harding – Portrait of Daniel Boone
Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi^[6]
George Hayter
- Portrait of Lord Holland
- Venus Supported by Iris, Complaining to Mars
William Hilton – Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana
John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling^[7]
Edwin Landseer – Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller
Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool^[8]
Charles Robert Leslie – Londoners Gypsying
Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers^[9]
Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Earl Grey
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)
Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Beethoven
John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
J. M. W. Turner – Rome from the Vatican
Horace Vernet – La Barrière de Clichy
David Wilkie – Reading the Will

Births

February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)^[10]
July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)^[11]
November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)^[12]
December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)
- Fabio Borbottoni, Italian painter of vedute (died 1902)

Deaths

January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)^[13]
March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)^[14]
May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)^[15]
September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
date unknown
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)

References

^ Kousser, Rachel (2005). "Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece". American Journal of Archaeology. 109 (2): 230. doi:10.3764/aja.109.2.227. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 40024510. S2CID 36871977.
^ "Jerusalem". The William Blake Archive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
^ "Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4397. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Reference at www.newsobserver.com".
^ "Harwich Lighthouse". Tate. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
^ Michele Di Monte (2004). HAYEZ, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
^ Johann Kräftner (2004). Liechtenstein Museum: Classicism and Biedermeier. Liechtenstein Museum. p. 87.
^ "Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
^ "Thomas Luny Battle of Algiers". Richard Gardner Antiques. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Oakes, John Wright" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doulton, Sir Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 449–450.
^ Munich. Schackgalerie (1911). Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia. G. Hirth. p. 69.
^ Charles Edwards Lester (1858). The Democratic Age: Statesmanship, Science, Art, Literature, and Progress. Hale, Valentine & Company. p. 204.
^ Carl Clauß (1883). "Kügelgen, Gerhard von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 17. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 305–307.
^ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 65 (2005), entry by Chiara Felicetti.

[1] Kousser, Rachel (2005). "Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece". American Journal of Archaeology. 109 (2): 230. doi:10.3764/aja.109.2.227. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 40024510. S2CID 36871977.

[2] "Jerusalem". The William Blake Archive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.

[3] "Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4397. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[4] "Reference at www.newsobserver.com".

[5] "Harwich Lighthouse". Tate. Retrieved 7 September 2024.

[6] Michele Di Monte (2004). HAYEZ, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

[7] Johann Kräftner (2004). Liechtenstein Museum: Classicism and Biedermeier. Liechtenstein Museum. p. 87.

[8] "Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

[9] "Thomas Luny Battle of Algiers". Richard Gardner Antiques. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

[10] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Oakes, John Wright" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.

[11] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doulton, Sir Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 449–450.

[12] Munich. Schackgalerie (1911). Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia. G. Hirth. p. 69.

[13] Charles Edwards Lester (1858). The Democratic Age: Statesmanship, Science, Art, Literature, and Progress. Hale, Valentine & Company. p. 204.

[14] Carl Clauß (1883). "Kügelgen, Gerhard von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 17. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 305–307.

[15] Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 65 (2005), entry by Chiara Felicetti.

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