1817 in art

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Events in the year 1817 in Art.

Events

• October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
• December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature). ^[1]
• unknown dates
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public. ^[2]
  • The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova. ^[3]

Works

Miniature self-portrait by Autissier. In the foreground, the artist's pencils, brushes, and tools for painting miniatures can be seen. Watercolour on ivory, 19.1 × 13.5 cm (7.52 × 5.31 in), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

• Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
• François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
• Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
• Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
• John Constable
  • Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) ^[4]
  • Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
• John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
• George Dawe – Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales ^[5]
• François Gérard – Entry of Henry IV into Paris
• John James Halls – Rear-Admiral George Cockburn
• George Hayter – The Tribute Money
• Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
• Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book (c.)
• Thomas Phillips – The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
• Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
• J. M. W. Turner – The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire

Births

• January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
• February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878) ^[6]
• February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904) ^[7]
• February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
• March 1 – Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
• March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
• April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
• July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
• August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886) ^[8]
• August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899) ^[9]
• November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
• November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

Deaths

• March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752) ^[10]
• May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
• June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
• June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
• September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
• September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
• October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
• November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
• November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
• December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
• December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
• date unknown
  • Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
  • Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)

References

1. Plumly, Stanley (2014). The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb . New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN   978-0-393-08099-5.
2. "Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates 200 years of visitors". Dulwich Picture Gallery. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
3. "Vatican Museums". Archeoroma. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
4. Max F Schulz (1985). Paradise preserved: recreations of Eden in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Cambridge University Press. p. 117. ISBN   9780521301732.
5. Lara Perry (2006). History's Beauties: Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900. Ashgate Publishing. p. 156.
6.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Daubigny, Charles François". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 847.
7. Wilfrid Blunt (1966). George Frederick Watts. Knowledge Publications. p. 2.
8. "Richard Dadd (1817–1886)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37337.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
9. Sortais, Gaston (1910). "Antoine-Dominique Magaud"  . Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 9.
10. Thomas Mardy Rees. "Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817), painter and illustrator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 28 July 2024.