1814 in art

Events in the year 1814 in Art.

Goya – The Third of May 1808 (1814)

Lawrence – Portrait of Marshal Blücher .

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1814 opens at Somerset House in London. ^[1]
• 5 November – The Salon of 1814 opens at the Louvre in Paris, the first to take place following the Bourbon Restoration. ^[2]
• A Madonna of St Jerome by Antonio da Correggio is returned to Parma, eighteen years after being looted by the French.

Works

• Jean-Antoine Alavoine – The Elephant of the Bastille (full-size model)
• Merry-Joseph Blondel - La Circassienne au Bain
• Antonio Canova – The Three Graces
• Louis Daguerre – Interior of a Chapel of the Church of the Feuillants
• Francisco Goya
  • The Second of May 1808
  • The Third of May 1808
• Hokusai
  • The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (woodcut)
  • Hokusai Manga (publication begins)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • Grande Odalisque
  • Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples
  • Raphael and La Fornarina
• Thomas Lawrence
  • The Prince Regent (oil sketch)
  • Portrait of Marshal Blücher
• John Smith of Darnick – William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde

Births

• January 17 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (died 1872) ^[3]
• February 18 – Gustav Fabergé, Baltic German jeweller (died 1894)
• March 3 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (died 1888)
• March 9 (February 25 O.S.) – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist (died 1861)
• March 22 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (died 1857)
• May 21 – Louis Janmot, French painter and poet (died 1892)
• May 22 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (died 1891)
• July – Charles Lucy, English historical painter (died 1873)
• July 13 – Johann Halbig, German classicist sculptor (died 1882)
• August 26 – Johann Pucher, Slovene Catholic priest, inventor, scientist, photographer, artist and poet (died 1864)
• September 1 – John Cooke Bourne, English topographical artist, lithographer and photographer (died 1896)
• September 15 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (died 1866)
• October 4 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (died 1875)
• October 12 – Ernest Gambart, Belgian-born art dealer (died 1902)
• date unknown – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (died 1866)

Deaths

• January 5 – Johann Friedrich Bause, German engraver (born 1738)
• January 20 – Jean-François Pierre Peyron, French neoclassical painter (born 1744)
• January 28 – Pierre Lacour, French painter (born 1745)
• February 26 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor born in Stockholm (born 1740) ^[4]
• February 27 – Margaret Bingham, British painter and writer (born 1740)
• March 29 – Claude Michel, French sculptor in the Rococo style (born 1738)
• May 31 – Arend Johan van Glinstra, Dutch painter (born 1754)
• June 17 – Henry Tresham, Irish-born painter of large-scale history paintings (born 1751)
• August 21 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter in the Neoclassical style (born 1748)
• November 18 – Aleijadinho, Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (born 1730/1738)
• November 30 – Jean-Michel Moreau, illustrator and engraver (born 1741)
• December 22 – Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (born 1760)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (born 1753)
  • Grigory Ostrovsky, Russian portraitist (born 1756)
  • Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (born 1763)

References

1. Martin Myrone. "1814 Family Affairs". Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: Chronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
2. Daniel Harkett; Katie Hornstein (2017). Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press. p. 203.
3. William Vernon Kinietz (1942). John Mix Stanley and His Indian Paintings. University of Michigan Press. p. 3.
4. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sergel, Johan Tobias"  . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.