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.
Works
- Caspar David Freidrich – Morning on the Riesengebirge
- François Gérard – Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of George Hibbert
- 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
- March 20 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist
- April 5 – Jules Dupré, French painter
- May 11 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter
- May 15 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter
- July 28 – Charles West Cope, English genre painter
- December 3 – Eduard Bendemann, German painter
- unknown date
- *Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer
- *Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor
- *Auguste Ottin, French sculptor
- *Pierre Étienne Rémillieux, French painter
Deaths
- January 8 – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom
- January 10
- * Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter
- * Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver
- January 12 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter
- January 21 – Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter
- February 19 – Joaquín Inza y Ainsa, Spanish Baroque painter
- March 1 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter
- March 4 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits
- April 28 – Johann Baptist Drechsler, Austrian painter of flowers
- May 1 – John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures
- July 16 – Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher
- July 28 – Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist
- September 16 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher
- September 30 – Antoine Raspal, French painter
- October 5 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter
- October 15 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and politician
- December 22 – François Devosge, French portrait painter
- date unknown – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter