1827 in art

Events

• 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827 opens at Somerset House in London
• Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
• John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
• English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings The Mock Election and Chairing the Member.
• Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.

Works

• William Blake – The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
• Henry Perronet Briggs – The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians
• Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Dead Calm
• Thomas Campbell
• * Bust of Henry Raeburn
• * Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton
• George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
• Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
• William Collins – A Frost Scene
• John Constable
• * Chain Pier, Brighton
• * Vale of Health, Hampstead
• Eugène Delacroix
• * Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
• * Death of Sardanapalus
• * Still Life with Lobsters
• Charles Lock Eastlake
• * Lord Byron's Dream
• * Pilgrims Arriving in Sight of Rome
• Jean-François Garneray – The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
• François Gérard - The Coronation of Charles X
• Francisco Goya – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Mock Election
• Francesco Hayez – Bathsheba
• François Joseph Heim – Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
• Hokusai – wood-block print series
• * A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
• * Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Apotheosis of Homer
• George Jones – Banquet in the Thames Tunnel
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
• Edwin Landseer
• * A Scene at Abbotsford
• * The Monkey Who Had Seen the World
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of the Duke of Clarence
• * Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel
• * Portrait of Rosamond Croker
• Patrick Nasmyth – View of Bristol
• François Rude – Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos
• John Simpson – The Captive Slave
• J.M.W. Turner
• * Rembrandt's Daughter
• * Scene in Derbyshire
• Horace Vernet
• * The Battle of Bouvines
• * Edith Recovering Harold's Body after the Battle of Hastings
• David Wilkie – ''I Pifferari''

Births

• February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony
• April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter
• May 1
• * Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter
• * August Cappelen, Norwegian painter
• May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor
• June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter
• October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor
• Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor
• Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer

Deaths

• February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter
• March 25 – Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste
• April 21 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist
• May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor
• August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver
• December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals date unknown
• * Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
• * Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver