1820 in art

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Events in the year 1820 in Art.

Events

Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre

• April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos). ^[1]
• 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. ^[2]

Works

Rome from the Vatican by Turner.

Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler.

• William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
• William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
• Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway ^[3]
• Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831) ^[4]
• John Constable
  • Dedham Lock and Mill
  • Harwich Lighthouse ^[5]
  • Waterloo Bridge
• George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
• Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
• William Etty
  • Female Nude in a Landscape
• 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 ^[6]
• George Hayter
  • Portrait of Lord Holland
  • Venus supported by Iris, complaining to Mars
• William Hilton – Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana
• John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
• Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling ^[7]
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool ^[8]
• Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers ^[9]
• 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)

Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples, with her mother, Ellen, in the background, c.1820

• 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) ^[10]
• July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897) ^[11]
• November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898) ^[12]
• 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) ^[13]
• March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772) ^[14]
• 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) ^[15]
• 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

1. 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.
2. "Jerusalem". The William Blake Archive. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
3. "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.)
4. "Reference at www.newsobserver.com".
5. "Harwich Lighthouse". Tate. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
6. Michele Di Monte (2004). HAYEZ, Francesco, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
7. Johann Kräftner (2004). Liechtenstein Museum: Classicism and Biedermeier. Liechtenstein Museum. p. 87.
8. "Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
9. "Thomas Luny Battle of Algiers". Richard Gardner Antiques. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
10. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Oakes, John Wright"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.
11.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doulton, Sir Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 449–450.
12. Munich. Schackgalerie (1911). Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia. G. Hirth. p. 69.
13. Charles Edwards Lester (1858). The Democratic Age: Statesmanship, Science, Art, Literature, and Progress. Hale, Valentine & Company. p. 204.
14. Carl Clauß (1883). "Kügelgen, Gerhard von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 17. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 305–307.
15. Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 65 (2005), entry by Chiara Felicetti.