1817 in art
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Events in the year 1817 in Art.
Events
- October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
- December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).[1]
- Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened.
- Construction of the Vatican Museum begins.
Works
Miniature self-portrait by Autissier. In the foreground, the artist's pencils, brushes, and tools for painting miniatures can be seen. Watercolour on ivory, 19.1 × 13.5 cm (7.52 × 5.31 in), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
- Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
- François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
- Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
- Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
- John Constable
- Flatford Mill
- Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
- John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
- John James Halls – Rear-Admiral George Cockburn
- George Hayter – The Tribute Money
- Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Births
- January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
- February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)
- February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)
- February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
- March 1 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
- March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
- April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
- July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
- August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)
- August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)
- November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
- November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)
Deaths
- March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)
- May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
- June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
- June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
- September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
- September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
- October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
- November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
- November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
- December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
- December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
- date unknown
- Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
- Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)
References
- Plumly, Stanley (2014). The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-08099-5.
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