1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events

• 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London. ^[1]
• 29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress. ^[2]

Works

See also: Category:1818 sculptures

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich.

The Field of Waterloo by William Turner

The Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras by Jan Willem Pieneman

Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu by Thomas Lawrence

• William Beechey – Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge
• Augustus Wall Callcott – The Mouth of the Tyne
• John Constable – Willy Lott's House from the Stour
• Charles de Steuben – Napoleon's Return from Elba
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
  • Seaside by Moonlight
  • Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
• Théodore Géricault – Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
• Hiroshige
  • Eight Views of Omi
  • Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
• Antoine-Jean Gros – The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac
• Henry Howard – The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte ^[3]
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci ^[4]
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of Count Nesselrode
  • Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu ^[5]
  • Portrait of Frederick William III of Prussia
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
• Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
• William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
• David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding

Births

• January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
• January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879) ^[6]
• January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
• April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
• April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
• May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
• June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
• June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
• December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
• probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)

Deaths

• January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)^{[ citation needed ]}
• February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
• March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734) ^[7]
• March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
• March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752) ^[8]
• April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777) ^[9]
• August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)
• October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
• November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
• November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751) ^[10]
• November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
• December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)
• date unknown – Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734) ^[11]

References

1. Gillian Forrester. "1818 Camaraderie and Rivalry on Display". Royal Academy. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
2. Williams, D.E (1831). The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Colburn. p. 108.
3. "The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales (1796-1817)". National Trust. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
4. "Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci". Petit Palais . Retrieved 28 July 2024.
5. Beatrice De Graaf (2020). Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815. Cambridge University Press. p. 178.
6. Richard Muther; George Arthur Green; Arthur Cecil Hillier (1895). The History of Modern Painting. Henry and Company. p. 807.
7.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cust, Lionel Henry (1887). "Cotes, Samuel". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 284.
8. Courtney, William Prideaux (1896). "Repton, Humphry"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
9. "The Wilkinson Tracings". Birmingham Museums. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
10. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Füger, Heinrich"  . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
11. The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. p. 126.