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1815 art
Events in the year 1815 in art.
Events
April 22 – English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence is knighted.History Today Thomas Lawrence 1 1951 44
May 1 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1815 opens in at Somerset House. It features portraits by Thomas Lawrence of the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher who will triumph at the Battle of Waterloo before the exhibition closes on June 24
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Rebuilding of Brighton Pavilion by John Nash begins in England.
The unfinished Waterloo Vase is presented to the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom; the prince commissions sculptor Richard Westmacott to complete it.David Bellamy Marjorie Lyon The Queen's Hidden Garden: Buckingham Palace's Treasury of Wild Plants David & Charles 1984 9780715385906 93
Beginning of Biedermeier period in the European arts.
Académie Suisse, an informal art school, is established in Paris by artists' model Martin Suisse.D'Ivol Paul 25 December 1859 Feu Suisse French 6 Le Figaro Paris, France
James Pollard's first four mail coach paintings are engraved and published as aquatints in Britain.
Works
thumb|The Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence.
thumb|Napoleon on the Bellerophon by Charles Lock Eastlake.
thumb|Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill by John Constable.
William Beechey
Portrait of Harriet Mellon
Portrait of Lord Beresford
Portrait of Thomas Picton
Edward Bird – The Departure to London
Vincenzo Chilone – The Return of the Horses of San Marco
William Collins – Shrimp Boys at Cromerhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/shrimp-boys-at-cromer-norfolk-51055
John Constable
Brightwell Church and Villagehttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-brightwell-church-and-village-t03121 Brightwell Church and Village Tate Britain 1 December 2024
Boat-Building Near Flatford MillIan Waites Common Land in English Painting 1700-1850 Boydell Press 2012 70
Abraham Cooper – Marshal Blucher at the Battle of Ligny
Denis Dighton – The Defence of Hougoumont
Charles Lock Eastlake – Napoleon on the Bellerophon
Francisco Goya
The Junta of the Philippines
Portrait of Ferdinand VII
Self-portrait at 69
Tauromaquia
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 (Apsley House)(Levey Michael Michael Levey https://archive.org/details/sirthomaslawrenc0000leve Sir Thomas Lawrence 2005 Yale University Press 978-0-300-10998-6 registration 26
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Waterloo Chamber)
Charles Robert Leslie – The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford
J. M. W. Turner
Crossing the Brook
Dido Building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire
David Wilkie – Distraining for Rent
Births
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)Mark Stocker Thornycroft, Thomas (1815–1885) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2006 https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27369 3 February 2025
June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, née Pattle, Indian-born British photographer (died 1879)
July 12 – Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), English illustrator (died 1882)Browne, Hablot Knight 3
September 1 – Emma Stebbins, American sculptor (died 1882)A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company Houghton, Mifflin 1899 123
November 15 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (died 1891)John Hanners "It was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-century American Popular Theatre Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1993 9780879725877 9
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
March 7 – Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian engraver (born 1725)
May 28 – Charlotta Cedercreutz, Swedish painter and noblewoman (born 1736)Emil von Maltitz Geschichte der familie von Wrangel de 1887 328
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)Edmund Lodge The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing Hurst and Blackett 1867 600
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)Burke, Thomas (1749-1815) Louis Alexander Fagan Louis Alexander Fagan 60 cites: [Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878).]
date unknown
Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (born 1770)
Emma Körner, German painter (born 1788)December 2024
References
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