1822 in art

Events

• 24 April – Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in Paris
• 6 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1822 opens at Somerset House in London
• Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph through his heliographic process.
• The Mauritshuis in The Hague opens to the public as a state art museum.
• Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner.

Paintings

• Louis-Léopold Boilly
• *Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elysées
• * Moving Day
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Smugglers Alarmed
• Alexander Carse – George IV Landing at Leith
• John Constable
• * The Grove, Hampstead
• * Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire
• * Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead
• * View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead
• * View on the Stour near Dedham
• * Yarmouth Jetty
• Francis Danby – View of the Avon Gorge
• Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante
• John Doyle – The Life of a Racehorse
• Charles Lock Eastlake
• * The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccino
• * The Colosseum from the Esquiline
• William Etty – Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
• Caspar David Friedrich
• *The Lonely Tree
• *Moonrise by the Sea
• *The Tree of Crows
• François Gérard – The Duchess of Berry and Her Children
• Théodore Géricault – portraits of insane inmates of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget.
• *Insane Woman
• *Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus
• Louis Hersent – Ruth
• George Jones
• * The Banquet at the Coronation of George IV
• * The Battle of Vittoria
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina
• Jérôme-Martin Langlois - Diana and Endymion
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of the Countess of Blessington
• * Portrait of George IV
• Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Moscow
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - The Oath of the Ancestors
• John Martin – The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Charles Meynier – Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles
• Samuel Morse – The House of Representatives
• Charles Willson Peale – The Artist in His Museum
• Pierre Paul Prud'hon – Crucifixion
• Pierre Révoil – Mary, Queen of Scots, Separated from Her Followers
• Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Recruiting Party
• Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas – Procession of Saint Januarius During an Eruption of Vesuvius
• J.M.W. Turner – George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh
• John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne
• Horace Vernet
• * The Battle of Montmirail
• * Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm
• David Wilkie – ''The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch''

Sculpture

• Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain
• Lorenzo Bartolini –
• Richard Westmacott – statue of ''Achilles''

Births

• February 16 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist
• March 16 – Rosa Bonheur, French animal painter
• May 18? – Mathew Brady, American photographer
• June 1 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming, British portrait photographer
• August 27 – Theodor Martens, German painter
• October 7 – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer

Deaths

• January 14 – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman
• January 22 – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor
• February 11 – Arthur William Devis, English painter of history paintings and portraits
• March 23 – Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin
• April 3 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts
• April 17 – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter
• May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, American portrait painter
• May 11 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter
• May 19 – Daniel Havell, English engraver
• September 10 – Antoine Cardon, also known as Cardon the Elder, Belgian painter, portraitist and engraver
• September 24 – Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter
• October 9 – Richard Earlom, English engraver
• October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
• October 25 – James Sowerby, English naturalist and illustrator
• November 17 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor
• December 10 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist
• December 28 – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer
• date unknown
• *Pierre Audouin, French engraver
• *Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court
• *Nathaniel Plimer, English miniaturist
• *Mariano Ramón Sánchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures