1815 in art
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Events in the year 1815 in Art.
Events
[edit]- April 22 – English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence is knighted.
- Rebuilding of Brighton Pavilion by John Nash begins in England.
- The unfinished Waterloo Vase is presented to the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom who commissions the sculptor Richard Westmacott to complete it.
- Beginning of Biedermeier period in the European arts.
- Académie Suisse, an informal art school, is established in Paris by artists' model Martin Suisse.
- James Pollard's first four mail coach paintings are engraved and published as aquatints in England.
Works
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- William Beechey
- Vincenzo Chilone – The Return of the Horses of San Marco
- John Constable
- Charles Lock Eastlake – Napoleon on the Bellerophon
- Francisco Goya
- George Jones – The Prince Regent Received by the University and City of Oxford
- Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Vasily Zhukovsky
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
- J. M. W. Turner
Births
[edit]- February 15 – Eugène-Louis Lequesne, French sculptor (died 1887)
- February 18 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (died 1869)
- February 21 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French Classicist painter and sculptor (died 1891)
- March 15 – Dimitrije Avramović, eminent Serbian painter of icons and frescoes (died 1855)
- May 19 – Thomas Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1885)
- June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, née Pattle, Indian-born British photographer (died 1879)
- July 12 – Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), English illustrator (died 1882)
- September 1 – Emma Stebbins, American sculptor (died 1882)
- November 15 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (died 1891)[3]
- December 8 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and engraver (died 1905)
- December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter and art teacher (died 1879)
- date unknown
- Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (died 1891)
- Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (died 1869)
Deaths
[edit]- March 7 – Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian engraver (born 1725)
- May 28 – Charlotta Cedercreutz, Swedish painter and noblewoman (born 1736)[4]
- June 1 – James Gillray, British caricaturist (born c.1756)
- June 28 – Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school (born 1752)
- August 31 – John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator (born 1742)
- September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (born 1738)[5]
- November 9
- Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver (born 1756)
- Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art (born 1777)
- December 31 – Thomas Burke, Irish engraver and painter (born 1749)[6]
- date unknown
- Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (born 1770)
- Emma Körner, German painter (born 1788)[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Brightwell Church and Village". Tate Britain. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ Ian Waites (2012). Common Land in English Painting 1700-1850. Boydell Press. p. 70.
- ^ John Hanners (1993). "It was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-century American Popular Theatre. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780879725877.
- ^ Emil von Maltitz (1887). Geschichte der familie von Wrangel (in German). p. 328.
- ^ Edmund Lodge (1867). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst and Blackett. p. 600.
- ^ Fagan, Louis Alexander (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
cites: [Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878).]