1820 in art
Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
Image:Venus de Milo Louvre Ma399 n4.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre- April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos.
- Publication of William Blake's prophetic book of coloured engravings, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, is completed in London with the first printing.
Works
- Martin Archer Shee – The Painter's Son
- William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
- William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
- Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway
- Antonio Canova – George Washington
- John Constable
- * Dedham Lock and Mill
- * Hampstead Heath
- * Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box
- * Harwich Lighthouse
- * Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close
- * Waterloo Bridge
- John Crome – Mousehold Heath
- George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
- Johan Christian Dahl –
- William Etty
- *Female Nude in a Landscape
- François Gérard – Portrait of the Duke of Berry
- Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
- Antoine-Jean Gros – Bacchus and Ariadne
- Chester Harding – Portrait of Daniel Boone
- Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi
- George Hayter
- *Portrait of Lord Holland
- *Venus Supported by Iris, Complaining to Mars
- William Hilton – Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana
- John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
- Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling
- Edwin Landseer – Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool
- Charles Robert Leslie – Londoners Gypsying
- Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
- John Martin – Macbeth
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Earl Grey
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- *The Judgement of Paris
- *Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship
- Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Beethoven
- John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
- J. M. W. Turner – Rome from the Vatican
- Horace Vernet – La Barrière de Clichy
- David Wilkie – ''Reading the Will''
Births
- February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor
- February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator
- April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist
- May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter
- July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter
- July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter
- November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter
- December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter
- December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator
- date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter
- *Fabio Borbottoni, Italian painter of vedute
Deaths
- January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector
- March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo
- March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher
- March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter
- March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings
- May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia
- May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter
- September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter
- October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher date unknown
- * Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver
- * Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter
- * Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter