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1822 art
January 2026
Events in the year 1822 in Art.
Events
24 April – Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in ParisTahinci, Anna Wolohojian, Stephan. A Private Passion: 19th-century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthop Collection, Harvard University p.509
6 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1822 opens at Somerset House in Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1822 1822 The Triumph of the Everyday chronicle250.com 2026-10-01
Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph through his heliographic process.
The Mauritshuis in The Hague opens to the public as a state art museum.
Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner.
Paintings
thumb|Lawrence – Portrait of the Countess of Blessington (Wallace Collection, London)
thumb|Wilkie – The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch
thumb| Eastlake – The Colosseum from the Esquiline.
thumb|Friedrich – The Lonely Tree.
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elyséeshttps://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/151585#infos-principales
Moving Dayhttps://www.artic.edu/artworks/97681/the-movings
Augustus Wall Callcott – Smugglers Alarmedhttps://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-569242
Alexander Carse – George IV Landing at Leithhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/george-iv-landing-at-leith-1822-93153
John Constable
The Grove, Hampsteadhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-the-grove-hampstead-n01246 ‘The Grove, Hampstead‘, John Constable, c.1821–2 Tate 2026-10-01
Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfirehttps://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38542
Road to the Spaniards, Hampsteadhttps://www.visitpham.org/objects/102687
View of Lower Terrace, Hampsteadhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view-of-lower-terrace-hampstead-30585
View on the Stour near Dedhamhttps://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/273/view-on-the-stour-near-dedham
Yarmouth JettyThornes, John E. John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science. A&C Black, 1999. p.116
Francis Danby – View of the Avon Gorgehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view-of-the-avon-gorge-188418
Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante (first major work)
John Doyle – The Life of a Racehorse (prints)
Charles Lock Eastlake
The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccinohttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/eastlake-the-colosseum-from-the-campo-vaccino-t00665
The Colosseum from the Esquiline
William Etty – Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (first version)
Caspar David Friedrich
The Lonely Tree
Moonrise by the Sea
The Tree of Crows
François Gérard – The Duchess of Berry and Her Children
Théodore Géricault – portraits of insane inmates of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget.Bárbara Eschenburg Ingeborg Güssow El Romanticismo y el Realismo Los maestros de la pintura occidental Taschen 2005 427 3-8228-4744-5
Insane Woman
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus
Louis Hersent – Ruth
George Jones
The Banquet at the Coronation of George IVhttps://www.rct.uk/collection/404463/the-banquet-at-the-coronation-of-george-iv
The Battle of Vittoriahttps://www.rct.uk/collection/407186/the-battle-of-vittoria
Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina
Jérôme-Martin Langlois - Diana and Endymion
Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of the Countess of Blessington https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/margaret-countess-of-blessington-209594
Portrait of George IVSmith, E.A. George IV. Yale University Press, 1999. p.vii
Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Moscowhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE012051
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - The Oath of the Ancestorshttps://haitianartsociety.org/the-oath-of-the-ancestors-1822 The Oath of the Ancestors, 1822 Haitianartsociety.org 13 November 2021
John Martin – The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Charles Meynier – Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelleshttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/00000074830
Samuel Morse – The House of Representativeshttps://www.nga.gov/artworks/166463-house-representatives
James Northcote – Portrait of John Ruskinhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw07853/John-Ruskin
Charles Willson Peale – The Artist in His Museum
Pierre Paul Prud'hon – Crucifixion
Pierre Révoil – Mary, Queen of Scots, Separated from Her Followers
Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Recruiting Partyhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-recruiting-party-189023
Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas – Procession of Saint Januarius During an Eruption of Vesuviushttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE012310
J.M.W. Turner – George IV at St Giles's, Edinburghhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-george-iv-at-st-giless-edinburgh-n02857
John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne
Horace Vernet
The Battle of Montmirailhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/emile-jean-horace-vernet-the-battle-of-montmirail
Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Stormhttps://www.institutcalvet.fr/beaux-arts-archeologie/fr/oeuvre/joseph-vernet-attache-a-un-mat-etudie-les-effets-de-la-tempete
David Wilkie – The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch
Sculpture
Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain (marble)https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/eve-at-the-fountain-266072
Lorenzo Bartolini – The Campbell Sisters dancing a Waltz (marble)
Richard Westmacott – statue of Achilles (Wellington Monument, London)
Births
February 16 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (died 1891)
March 16 – Rosa Bonheur, French animal painter (died 1899)
May 18? – Mathew Brady, American photographer (died 1896)
June 1 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming, British portrait photographer (died 1865)
August 27 – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)
October 7 – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer (died 1898)
Deaths
January 14 – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
January 22 – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786)
February 11 – Arthur William Devis, English painter of history paintings and portraits (born 1762)
March 23 – Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin (born 1756)
April 3 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
April 17 – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (born 1735)
May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, American portrait painter (born 1767)
May 11 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1746)
May 19 (bur.) – Daniel Havell, English engraver (born 1785)
September 10 – Antoine Cardon, also known as Cardon the Elder, Belgian painter, portraitist and engraver (born 1739)
September 24 – Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (born 1796)
October 9 – Richard Earlom, English engraver (born 1742)RAAC staff https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/richard-earlom
Richard Earlom Royal Academy of Arts Collections 7 January 2026 505
October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (born 1757)cs2 Irwin David http://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Canova-marchese-dIschia Antonio Canova, marchese d'Ischia | Italian sculptor Britannica.com 1 April 2017
October 25 – James Sowerby, English naturalist and illustrator (born 1757)David M. Damkaer The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History American Philosophical Society 2002 141
November 17 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (born 1731)
December 10 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist (born 1761)
December 28 – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)
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Pierre Audouin, French engraver (born 1768)
Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court (born 1754)
Nathaniel Plimer, English miniaturist (born 1757)Plimer, Andrew His brother Nathaniel appears in the same DNB entry.
Mariano Ramón Sánchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (born 1740)
References
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