Overview of the events of 1820 in art
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Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
- April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).
- 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.
Works
- William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
- William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
- Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway
- Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)
- John Constable
- George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
- Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
- William Etty
- 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
- George Hayter
- John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
- Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool
- Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
- 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)
- Rolinda Sharples – Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples
- 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)
- July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
- November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
- 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)
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)
- March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)
- 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)
- 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.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Oakes, John Wright" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.
- 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.