1817 in art
Events in the year 1817 in Art.
Events
- May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817 opens at Somerset House in London
- October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
- December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.
- unknown dates
- *Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.
- *The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova.
Works
- Martin Archer Shee
- * Portrait of Thomas Moore
- * Portrait of William Roscoe
- Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
- François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
- Antonio Canova – The Three Graces
- Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children
- John Constable
- * Fen Lane, East Bergholt
- *Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)
- *Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
- John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
- George Dawe – Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales
- François Gérard – Entry of Henry IV into Paris
- Antoine-Jean Gros – The Departure of Louis XVIII from the Tuileries Palace
- John James Halls – Portrait of George Cockburn
- George Henry Harlow – The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine
- George Hayter – The Tribute Money
- George Francis Joseph – Portrait of Stamford Raffles
- Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
- Thomas Lawrence
- * Portrait of Lord Uxbridge
- * Portrait of Thomas Graham
- John Martin – The Bard
- Nicolas-André Monsiau – Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse
- François-Joseph Navez – Portrait of Jacques-Louis David
- Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book
- Thomas Phillips – The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- J. M. W. Turner
- * The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
- * Raby Castle
- David Wilkie
- * Bathsheba at the Bath
- * ''Sheepwashing''
Births
- January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter
- February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter
- February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor
- February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist
- March 1 – Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver
- March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter
- April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter
- July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter
- August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman
- August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter
- November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician
- November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter
Deaths
- March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter
- May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver
- June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter
- June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist
- September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals
- September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect
- October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter
- November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian
- November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter
- December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist
- December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver date unknown
- * Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer
- * Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter