1818 in art

Events

• 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London.
• 29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.

Works

• William Beechey – Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge
• Augustus Wall Callcott – The Mouth of the Tyne
• John Constable – Willy Lott's House from the Stour
• Charles de Steuben – Napoleon's Return from Elba
• Caspar David Friedrich
• * Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
• * Seaside by Moonlight
• * Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
• Théodore Géricault – Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
• Hiroshige
• * Eight Views of Omi
• * Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
• Antoine-Jean Gros – The Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême at Pauillac
• Henry Howard – The Apotheosis of Princess Charlotte
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of Count Nesselrode
• * Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu
• * Portrait of Frederick William III of Prussia
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Francis Leggatt Chantrey
• Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
• William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
• David Wilkie – ''The Penny Wedding''

Births

• January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter
• January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer
• January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor
• April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter
• April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist
• May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor
• June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor
• June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist
• December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist

Deaths

• January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter
• February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter
• March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons
• March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter
• March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist
• April – George Bullock, English sculptor
• August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court
• October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher
• November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter
• November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter
• November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker
• December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes date unknown – Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor