1819 in art
Events in the year 1819 in art.
Events
- 3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819 opens at Somerset House in London
- 25 August to 30 September – Paris Salon of 1819.
- November – The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.unknown date – The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.
Works
- Washington Allston – The Flight of Florimell
- John Constable – The Gathering Storm
- Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
- John Flaxman – Statue of Sir John Moore
- Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
- Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
- Francisco Goya
- * The Madhouse
- * Portrait of Juan Antonio Cuervo
- * A Procession of Flagellants
- * A Village Bullfight
- Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
- Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
- * Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
- * Niccolò Paganini
- Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Generosity of Alexander
- Thomas Lawrence
- * Portrait of Archduke Charles
- * Portrait of Francis I of Austria
- * Portrait of Napoleon II
- * Portrait of Prince Schwarzenberg
- * Portrait of Pope Pius VII
- * Portrait of Selina Meade
- Louis-François Lejeune – Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
- John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
- Samuel Morse – Portrait of James Monroe
- Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of the Earl of Durham
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Dream of Happiness
- Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
- Pierre Révoil – Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
- Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Post Office
- Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
- John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
- J. M. W. Turner
- * England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday
- * Entrance of the Meuse
- Horace Vernet
- * Massacre of the Mamelukes
- * The Dog of the Regiment Wounded
- * ''The Wounded Trumpeter''
Births
- January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter
- January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter
- February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic
- February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist
- February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector
- March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer
- June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter
- June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter
- June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher
- June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter
- August 11 – Martin Johnson Heade, American painter
- June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter
- September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter
- December 6 – Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter
- December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter date unknown – Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist
Deaths
- January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher
- February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter
- March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter
- May 2 – Mary Moser, English painter
- May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver
- May 19 – Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter
- May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter
- June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic
- July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals
- July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter
- August – Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style
- August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer
- August 27 – John Lewin, English-born Australian artist
- September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter
- October 8 – William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller
- November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter
- November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter
- November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist
- December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling date unknown
- * Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason
- * Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court
- * Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste