1820 in art

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Events in the year 1820 in Art.

## Events

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Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre

* 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

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Rome from the Vatican by Turner. Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler.

* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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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