1833 in art

Events

• January – Honoré Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature.
• 1 March – The Salon of 1833 opens at the Louvre in Paris

Works

• William Allan – The Murder of David Rizzio
• Karl Bryullov – The Last Day of Pompeii
• Thomas Cole
• * Scene from "Manfred"
• * The Titan's Goblet
• John Constable – The Cottage in a Cornfield
• Hippolyte Delaroche – The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
• William Etty – Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret
• Caspar David Friedrich – Easter Morning
• Francis Grant – A Meet of the Fife Hounds
• Francesco Hayez – Lot and His Daughters
• Hiroshige – The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
• George Jones – Godiva Preparing to Ride through Coventry
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen
• Edwin Landseer
• * The Hunted Stag
• * A Jack in Office
• Samuel Morse – Gallery of the Louvre
• Nicolaas Pieneman – The Battle of Bautersem
• David Roberts
• * The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra
• * The Torre del Oro
• François Rude – Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise
• Hendrik Scheffer – Portrait of Armand Carrel
• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of William IV
• Clarkson Stanfield
• * Orford
• * Venice from the Dogana
• J.M.W. Turner
• * Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine
• * Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
• Horace Vernet
• * The Arab Tale-Teller
• * Portrait of [Bertel Thorvaldsen]
• Matthew Cotes Wyatt – ''Bashaw, The Faithful Friend of Man Trampling under Foot his most Insidious Enemy''

Births

• April 17 – George Vicat Cole, English painter
• May 3 – Philip Hermogenes Calderon, French-born painter
• May 22 – Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher
• August 22 – Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli
• August 28 – Edward Burne-Jones, English pre-Raphaelite painter and designer
• November 12 – George Paul Chalmers, Scottish painter
• Rosalie Sjöman, Swedish photographer

Deaths

• January 30 – Augustin Dupré, French engraver of French currency and medals
• April 3 – Stepan Pimenov, Russian sculptor
• April 7 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome
• April 8 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver
• May – Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter
• June 28 – Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg, Finnish painter
• July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor who created some of the earliest photographs
• July 6 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, French painter
• July 11 – Paul Joseph Gabriël, Dutch painter and sculptor
• October 11 – Ernst Fries, German painter
• November 27 – Philip Reinagle, English animal, landscape and botanical painter
• December 3 – Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter date unknown – Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas, French painter and lithographer