1823 in art

Events

• 5 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1823 opens at Somerset House in London

Works

• Henry Perronet Briggs – The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
• John Constable
• * Gillingham Bridge
• * Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
• Eugène Delacroix – Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe
• Charles Lock Eastlake – The Celian Hill from the Palatine
• Caspar David Friedrich – Hutten's Grave
• Théodore Géricault – A Charge of Cuirassiers
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson –Portrait of Madame Reiset
• Francisco Goya – Portrait of Don Ramón Satué
• Francesco Hayez
• * Antonietta Vitali Sola
• * Conte Ninni
• * The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet
• George Hayter – The Trial of Queen Caroline
• Henry Inman – Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep
• John Martin – The Seventh Plague of Egypt
• James Arthur O'Connor – View of Irishtown from Sandymount
• Rembrandt Peale –
• * Portrait of DeWitt Clinton
• * Washington Before Yorktown
• Henry Raeburn – Portrait of [Sir Walter Scott (Raeburn)|Portrait of Sir Walter Scott]
• Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Amalie Auguste of Bavaria
• Gilbert Stuart
• * Portrait of John Adams
• * Portrait of Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
• J.M.W. Turner – The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl
• Horace Vernet
• * Allan M'Aulay
• * Portrait of Théodore Géricault
• Ferdinand Waldmüller – Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven
• James Ward – The Deer Stealer
• David Wilkie
• * The Parish Beadle
• * ''Portrait of the Duke of York''

Births

• March 1 – Charles Callahan Perkins, American art critic and author
• March 31 – William Hart, Scottish-born American landscape painter
• May 9 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver
• August 8 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter
• September 28 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter
• December 23 – Jozef Van Lerius, Belgian romantic-historical painter

Deaths

• January/February – George Brookshaw, English painter and illustrator
• January 22 – John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born British art collector
• January 25 – Johann Heinrich Bleuler, Swiss painter
• February 3 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, French sculptor
• February 16 – Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter
• March 15 – Jean-Louis Anselin, French engraver
• March 20 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter
• April 23 – Joseph Nollekens, British sculptor
• July 2 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameller noted for flower painting
• July 8 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter
• August 9 – Johan Erik Hedberg, Finnish painter
• October 21 – Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter
• December 4 – Luigi Acquisti, Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical style
• December 30 – Claude André Deseine, French sculptor