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