1825 in art
Events in the year 1825 in Art.
Events
- 2 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1825 opens at Somerset House in London
- August – English portrait artist Thomas Lawrence begins work on his portrait of King Charles X of France, the first of two French royal portraits commissioned by King George IV of the United Kingdom.
- End of year – John Constable formally ends his business relationship with his French dealer, John Arrowsmith.
Works
- Filippo Albacini – The Wounded Achilles
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- * On the Seine near Mantes
- * The Château of the Duchess of Berry
- Mather Brown – The Battle of the Nile
- John Constable
- *Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath
- *The Leaping Horse
- Robert Dampier – Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii
- Eugène Delacroix – Tam O'Shanter
- John Doyle – Turning out the Stag
- William Etty – The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard – Diane de Poitiers in the Studio of Jean Goujon
- François Gérard – Coronation Portrait of Charles X
- Thomas Lawrence
- * Portrait of the Duchess of Berry
- * Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême
- Louis-François Lejeune – Entry of Charles X into Paris after his coronation
- John Martin – Mezzotint illustrations to the Paradise Lost of Milton
- Samuel Morse – Portrait of Lafayette
- Alexander Nasmyth – Princes Street
- Samuel Palmer – Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family
- Thomas Phillips – Portrait of [John Franklin]
- Martinus Rørbye – View from the Artist's Window
- Clarkson Stanfield – Lake Como
- J.M.W. Turner – The Harbour of Dieppe
- Bartholomeus van Hove – ''Pompenburg with Hofpoort in winter''
Births
- February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter
- March 13 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter
- May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist and illustrator
- May 9 – James Collinson, English Pre-Raphaelite painter
- July 6 – Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor
- July 10 – Benjamin Paul Akers, American sculptor
- August 12 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter
- September 6 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter
- September 13 – William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor
- December 13 – Gerolamo Induno, Italian painter
Deaths
- January 11 – Jacopo Tumicelli, Italian portrait miniature painter
- February 24 – Toyokuni, Japanese master of ukiyo-e, especially Kabuki actor prints
- March 8 – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, French poet and painter from Brittany
- March 25 – Raphaelle Peale, American still-life painter
- April 6 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born portrait painter
- April 16 – Henry Fuseli, British painter and art critic
- April 23 – Friedrich Müller, German painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist
- April 27 – Vivant Denon, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist
- May 5 – François-Louis Gounod, French painter
- May 21 – Pierre-Charles Jombert, French painter
- June 1 – Giovanni Monti, Italian landscape painter
- June 13 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller
- June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect and artist
- June 22 – Domenico Vantini, Italian painter specializing in miniature portraits
- September 28 – Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter
- November 17 – Daniel Berger, German engraver
- December 29 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter