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