1832 in art
Events from the year 1832 in art.
Events
- 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832 opens at Somerset House
- New Society of Painters in Water Colours holds its first exhibition, in London.
Awards
- Prix de Rome
- * for painting – Antoine Wiertz
- * for sculpture – François Jouffroy
Works
- Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Thomas Denman
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – A Carnival Scene
- William Collins – Rustic Civility
- John Constable
- * Englefield House
- * The Opening of Waterloo Bridge
- * Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead
- William Etty
- * The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate
- * Phaedria and Cymochles
- * Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
- Francesco Hayez – Mary Stuart Proclaiming Her Innocence
- Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
- Henry Inman - "Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co"
- George Jones – The Opening of London Bridge
- Edwin Landseer – Hawking in the Olden Time
- James Arthur O'Connor – A Thunderstorm: The Frightened Wagoner
- Joseph Paelinck – Juno
- Jan Willem Pieneman – Portrait of General David Hendrik Chassé
- Clarkson Stanfield – The Opening of New London Bridge
- J. M. W. Turner
- * Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy
- * Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
- * Helvoetsluys
- * Staffa, Fingal's Cave
- * The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay
- Horace Vernet – Raphael at the Vatican
- Richard Westmacott - Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square
- David Wilkie
- * Portrait of William IV
- * ''The Preaching of John Knox Before the Lords of the Congregation''
Births
- January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator
- January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter,
- January 27 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter
- February 21 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer
- March 4 – Samuel Colman, American Hudson River school painter
- May 12 – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter
- June 1 – Henrietta Ward, English painter
- July 3 – Louis-Charles Verwee, Belgian painter
- July 27 – Đura Jakšić, Serbian painter and poet
- November 15 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter
- December 12 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch American marine painter
- George Anderson Lawson, Scottish-born sculptor
- Approximate date – Emma Brownlow, English genre painter
Deaths
- February 2 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver
- February 22
- *Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness
- *Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver
- March 13 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire
- March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic
- March 30 – Dora Stock, German portrait painter
- March 31 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue
- April 13
- * Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter
- * Joseph Barney, English painter
- April 22 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter
- April 23 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor
- May 7 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter
- June 24 – Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, French medal engraver
- August 17 – James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet
- September 22
- *Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver
- *William Fowler, English artist
- October 14 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer date unknown:
- * Edme Bovinet, French engraver
- * John Comerford, Irish miniature painter
- * Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects
- * Robert Havell, Sr., English engraver and publisher
- * Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist