1826 in art

Events

• 1 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1826 opens at Somerset House in London
• December 25 – Opening of the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, containing 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, painted by George Dawe and his Russian assistants Alexander Polyakov and Wilhelm August Golicke.
• Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, Kent, where he stays for the next decade.

Works

• Richard Parkes Bonington
• * The Pont des Arts, Paris
• * On the Adriatic
• Léon Cogniet – Italian Brigand's Wife
• Thomas Cole
• * Kaaterskill Falls
• * Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains
• John Constable
• * A Boat Passing a Lock
• * The Cornfield
• * Parham Mill
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Bridge at Narni
• Eugène Delacroix –
• *The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero
• *Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
• Eugène Devéria – The Reading of Mary Stuart's Sentence
• William Etty – The Judgement of Paris
• Francesco Hayez - Lampugnani's Conspiracy
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus
• Orest Kiprensky
• * Portrait of Prince N. P. Trubetzkoy
• * Portrait of O. A. Ryumina
• Edwin Landseer – The Hunting of Chevy Chase
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of George Canning
• * Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
• Samuel Morse – Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette
• Alexander Nasmyth – A Prospect of London
• Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject
• James Northcote – A Moor
• Joseph Denis Odevaere – Lord Byron on his Death-bed
• Samuel Palmer – Self-portrait
• Ary Scheffer – The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia
• Clarkson Stanfield – A Market Boat on the Scheldt
• J. M. W. Turner
• * Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening
• * Forum Romanum
• * Mortlake Terrace
• Horace Vernet – The Crossing of the Arcole Bridge
• Henry Voordecker – ''Hunter's Home''

Births

• February 18 – Lea Ahlborn, Swedish engraver
• March – Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter
• March 6 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter
• March 25 – Wilhelmina Lagerholm, Swedish photographer
• April 6 – Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter
• May 2 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian Romantic painter
• May 4 – Frederick Edwin Church, American landscape painter
• May 11 – Ludovic Piette, French impressionist painter
• June 8 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter
• September 24 – George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter
• October 1 – Karl von Piloty, German painter
• November 11 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer
• December 8 – Silvestro Lega, Italian painter date unknown
• *William Linnell, British painter
• *Novak Radonić, Serbian painter
• * Madame Virot, French fashion designer

Deaths

• January 25 – Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter
• February 21 – John Kay, Scottish caricaturist
• March 5 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists
• March 17 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator
• July 23 – Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter
• October 8
• *Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter
• *George Garrard, English artist
• November 12 – Christian Gullager, Danish artist specializing in portraits and theatrical scenery
• November 26 – John Nichols, English printer and author
• December 7 – John Flaxman, English sculptor date unknown
• * Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter
• * Jean-Louis Laneuville, French portrait painter
• * Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver
• * Victor-Jean Nicolle, French landscape and architecture painter
• * Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher
• * Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire