1811 in art

Events in the year 1811 in Art.

Events

• 29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 opens at Somerset House in London. ^[1]

Works

Saltash with the Water Ferry by J. M. W. Turner

• Caspar David Freidrich – Morning on the Riesengebirge ^[2]
• François Gérard – Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte ^[3]
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens
• Francesco Hayez – Aristotle
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis
• Georg Friedrich Kersting – Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Apollo and Python
  • Hulks on the Tamar
  • Saltash with the Water Ferry
• David Wilkie – The Village Holiday

Births

• January 2 – Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter (d. 1876)
• March 20 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (died 1879)
• April 5 – Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)
• May 11 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1893)
• May 15 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter (died 1882)
• July 28 – Charles West Cope, English genre painter (died 1890) ^[4]
• December 3 – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (died 1889) ^[5]
• unknown date
  • Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer (died 1888)
  • Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor (died 1860)
  • Auguste Ottin, French sculptor (died 1890)
  • Pierre Étienne Rémillieux, French painter (died 1856)

Deaths

• January 8 – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1753) ^[6]
• January 10
  • Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (born 1760)
  • Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver (born 1736)
• January 12 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (born 1776) ^[7]
• January 21 – Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter (born 1728)
• February 19 – Joaquín Inza y Ainsa, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1736)
• March 1 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (born 1743)
• March 4 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits (born 1754)
• April 28 – Johann Baptist Drechsler, Austrian painter of flowers (born 1766)
• May 1 – John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (born 1740) ^[8]
• July 16 – Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher (born 1757)
• July 28 – Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist (born 1752/1754)
• September 16 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher (born 1748)
• September 30 – Antoine Raspal, French painter (born 1738) ^[9]
• October 5 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter (born 1751)
• October 15 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and politician (born 1735) ^[10]
• December 22 – François Devosge, French portrait painter (born 1732)
• date unknown – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter (born 1752)

References

1. Anne Puetz. "1811 Henry Bone's Enamels and the Triumph of Skill". Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: a Chronicle. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
2. Hofmann, Werner (2000). Caspar David Friedrich. Caspar David Friedrich. New York: Thames & Hudson. pp. 101–102. ISBN   0-500-09295-8. OCLC   44932846.
3. Jean Tulard (2005). L'histoire de Napoléon par la peinture. Archipel. p. 186.
4.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Cope, Charles West". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
5. Landman, Isaac; Cohen, Simon (1943). The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Incorporated. p. 387.
6. Redgrave, Samuel (1878). "Bourgeois, Sir Francis". A dictionary of artists of the English school. G. Bell and sons. pp. 49–50.
7.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Bryan, Michael (1886). "Boisselier, Félix". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
8. Daphne Foskett (1965). John Smart: the Man and His Miniatures. October House. p. 58.
9. L'astrado. Astrado prouvençalo. 1980. p. 39.
10. Graham-Vernon, Deborah. "Dance, Nathaniel [afterwards Sir Nathaniel Holland, baronet] (1735–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13534.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)