1829 in art

Events

• 4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1829 opens at Somerset House in London
• November – Thomas Hornor's Panoramic view of London, the largest panoramic painting ever created, is completed in the London Colosseum, purpose-designed by Decimus Burton in Regent's Park.
• December – The final issue of The Yankee magazine by art critic John Neal is published.
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.

Works

Paintings

• Giuseppe Bezzuoli – The Entrance of Charles VIII into Florence
• John Constable – Hadleigh Castle
• Paul Delaroche – The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhône
• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – A View towards the Swedish Coast from the Ramparts of Kronborg Castle
• William Etty
• * Benaiah
• * Hero and Leander
• Benjamin Robert Haydon – Punch or May Day
• William Heath – Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution
• George Jones
• * The Battle of Borodino
• * Nelson Boarding the San Josef
• Christen Købke – View of Århus Cathedral
• Cornelis Kruseman – Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch
• Eugène Lami – Charles I Receiving a Rose
• Edwin Henry Landseer
• * Attachment
• * Low Life and High Life
• * The Illicit Highland Whisky Still
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of Maria II
• * Portrait of Jeffry Wyatville
• * Portrait of John Soane
• Bernardo López Piquer – Maria Isabel of Braganza
• David Roberts – The Departure of the Israelites
• John Simpson – Portrait of Clarkson Stanfield
• J. M. W. Turner
• * The Banks of the Loire
• * The Loretto Necklace
• * Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
• David Wilkie – ''George IV in Highland Dress''

Sculpture

• Francis Chantrey – Bust of John Soane
• John Hogan – The Dead Christ
• Carlo Marochetti – Young Girl Playing with a Dog
• Robert Mills – Washington Monument (Baltimore)

Births

• February 20 – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor
• March 1 – Adolf Seel, German painter
• March 5 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter
• June 8 – John Everett Millais, English painter
• July 18 – Paul Dubois, French sculptor and painter
• July 25 – Elizabeth Siddal, English Pre-Raphaelite artists' model, painter and poet
• August 19 – Edward Moran, American marine painter
• September 12 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter
• September 16 – Achille Emperaire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne
• November 20 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter
• date unknown – John Lewis Brown, French painter

Deaths

• January 6 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter
• February 4 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters
• March 21 – George Engleheart, English miniaturist
• March 24 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist
• May 24 – Michał Ceptowski, Bavarian-born Stucco#Sculptural and [architectural use|stucco artist] who settled and worked in Poland
• June 25 – Joseph Bergler the Younger, Austrian-born painter and etcher who settled and worked in Bohemia
• July 14 – Joseph Kreutzinger, Austrian portrait painter
• September 22 – Jes Bundsen, Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher
• September 27 – Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver
• November 12 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter date unknown
• * Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, Russian painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of arts
• * Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter
• * Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman
• * Gai Qi, Chinese poet and painter
• * Zhang Yin, Chinese Qing dynasty calligrapher and painter