1830 in art

Events

• 7 January – The President of the Royal Academy Thomas Lawrence dies in London. His friend Turner paints the watercolour Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence depicting his burial at St Paul's Cathedral
• 3 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1830 opens at Somerset House
• David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV of the United Kingdom following the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
• Clarkson Stanfield's panorama The Military Pass of the Simplon is featured in a Christmas pantomime in London.
• The Glyptothek museum of classical sculpture, commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, is opened as Munich's first public museum.
• Approximate beginning of the Barbizon school of painters.

Works

• Henry Perronet Briggs – Fanny Kemble and Sarah Siddons
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington
• George Catlin – General William Clark
• Léon Cogniet – Scenes of July 1830
• John Constable
• * The Glebe Farm
• * Helmingham Dell
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
• *The Cathedral of Chartres
• *The Forest of Fontainebleau
• Eugène Delacroix
• * The Battle of Poitiers
• * Liberty Leading the People
• Henri Decaisne – Maria Malibran as Desdemona
• William Etty — Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed
• Sarah Goodridge – Self-portrait
• Francesco Hayez – Carlotta Chabert as Venus
• Franz Krüger – Parade in the Opernplatz in Berlin
• Edwin Landseer
• * The Faithful Hound
• * The Stone Breaker and His Daughter
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Aberdeen
• Carl Friedrich Lessing - A King and Queen in Mourning
• Georges Michel – L'Orage
• Luigi Mussini – Death of Atala
• Samuel Palmer – Coming from Evening Church
• Hendrik Scheffer – The Arrest of Charlotte Corday
• Clarkson Stanfield – Mount St Michael, Cornwall
• William Strickland – Nathanael Greene Monument
• J. M. W. Turner
• * Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence
• * The Evening Star
• * Pilate Washing his Hands
• Horace Vernet – Portrait of Louise Vernet
• David Wilkie
• * The Entrance of George IV at Holyroodhouse
• * ''The Guerilla's Return''

Publications

• Edward Lear – Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (first in a series of lithographs.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Hector Berlioz & Alexandre Montfort.

Births

• January 7 – Albert Bierstadt, landscape painter
• January 17 - Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter
• April 9 – Eadweard Muybridge – photographer
• June 29 – John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor
• July 9 – Henry Peach Robinson, photographer
• July 10 – Camille Pissarro, impressionist painter
• August 6 – Francis Bicknell Carpenter, American painter
• August 12 – John O'Connor, painter
• August 29 – John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter
• October 24 – Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter
• December 3 – Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor
• date unknown – Nikolai Nevrev, Russian painter

Deaths

• January 7 – Sir Thomas Lawrence – English portrait painter
• February 11 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, Austrian historical and portrait painter
• February 14 – Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor
• February 16 – Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French miniature painter and engraver
• February 23 – Jan Piotr Norblin, French-born Polish painter and engraver
• February 28 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter
• April 10 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher
• May 11 – János Donát, Hungarian painter
• August – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey
• August 22 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter
• September 15 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture
• September 21 – Louis-Marie Autissier, French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter
• November 8 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter
• November 17 – Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, Flemish landscape and genre painter
• December 7 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school
• December 15 – Moritz Kellerhoven, Austrian painter date unknown
• * Pavel Đurković, Serbian painter and muralist.
• * Rosalie Duthé, French courtesan and artists' model.
• * Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and royal court painter