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