1812 in art
Events in the year 1812 in Art.
Events
- The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK.
- Hokusai publishes his first , Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing.
Awards
Works
- Pietro Benvenuti – The Oath of the Saxons
- Augustus Wall Callcott – Littlehampton Pier
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Geography Lesson
- William Collins – May Day
- John Constable – Flatford Mill from the Lock
- Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini
- Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
- Martin Drolling – Portrait of Adéone
- Alexandre Dufay – The Wedding Banquet of Napoleon and Marie Louise
- Caspar David Friedrich
- *The Garden Terrace
- *The Tombs of the Old Heroes
- François Gérard – Portrait of Marie Louise
- Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur
- Francisco Goya
- *Portrait of the [Duke of Wellington (Goya)|Portrait of the Duke of Wellington]
- *Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
- *The Burial of the Sardine
- Antoine-Jean Gros – Interview Between Napoleon and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – The Judgement of Paris
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- *Portrait of the Countess of Tournon
- *Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia
- Thomas Lawrence
- *John Philip Kemble as Cato
- * Sir Charles Stewart
- Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier – In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755
- John Linnell – Kensington Gravel Pits
- John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
- Charles Meynier – Napoleon's Return to the Island of Lobau After the Battle of Essling
- François Mulard – The Death of General Causse at the Battle of Dego
- Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry
- Pierre Révoil – The Tournament
- Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Henry Dearborn
- J. M. W. Turner
- * Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
- * St Mawes at the Pilchard Season
- * Teignmouth
- David Wilkie – ''Blind-Man's Buff''
Births
- March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer
- April 15 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter
- May 12 – Edward Lear, English painter, illustrator and humorous writer
- June 30 – Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter and music teacher
- July 9 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter
Deaths
- February 20 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works
- March 2 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and engraver
- March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, naturalized English theatrical scene painter
- March 14 – Robert Cromek, English engraver and art dealer
- March 18 – Johann Ziegler, Austrian painter of landscapes and city scenes
- March 29 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter
- May 92 – James Nixon, English miniature-painter
- May 12 – William Burgess, English painter and art teacher
- June 16 – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter
- June 21 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, painter
- August 2 – Edward Smyth, Irish sculptor
- August 23 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist
- October 21 – Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist
- December 20 – Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter
- December 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet
- unknown dates
- * Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur
- * Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver
- * Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher
- * Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter
- * Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver