Events in the year 1819 in art.
Events
- 25 August to 30 September – Paris Salon of 1819.
- November – The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.[1]
- unknown date – The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.[2]
Works


- Washington Allston – The Flight of Florimell
- John Constable – The Gathering Storm
- Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
- Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
- Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
- Francisco Goya
- Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
- Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
- Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Generosity of Alexander
- Thomas Lawrence
- Louis-François Lejeune – Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
- John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
- Samuel Morse – Portrait of James Monroe
- Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Dream of Happiness
- Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
- Pierre Révoil – Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
- Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
- John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
- J. M. W. Turner
- Horace Vernet
Births
- January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
- January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)[3]
- February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)[4]
- February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875)
- February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904)
- March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869)[5]
- June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
- June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)[6]
- June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
- June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)[7]
- August 11 – Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)[8]
- June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916)
- September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856)
- December 6 – Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857)[9]
- December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895)
- date unknown – Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904)
Deaths
- January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher (born 1779)[10]
- February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
- March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
- May 2 – Mary Moser, English painter (born 1744)
- May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
- May 19 – Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)[11]
- May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
- June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)[12]
- July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
- July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
- August – Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)[13]
- August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
- August 27 – John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
- September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
- October 8 – William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller (born 1740)[14]
- November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)[15]
- November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
- November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
- December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
- date unknown
- Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
- Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
- Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste (born 1776)
References
- ^ Mar. Sánchez Ramón (2001). Museo Del Prado: Short Guide. Aldeasa. p. 2. ISBN 9788480032551.
- ^ Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The Society. 1993. p. 94.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Hewison, Robert. "Ruskin, John (1819–1900)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24291. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Taylor, Roger (October 2006). "Fenton, Roger (1819–1869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Frantz, Henri (1911). Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 318–319. . In
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gray, Henry Peters". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 391. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ National Gallery of Art. "Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)". Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^ Clarke, Frances (2009). "Crowley, Nicholas Joseph". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Zwinger, Gustav Philipp". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- ^ The Scotish Musical Museum: Consisting of Upwards of Six Hundred Songs, with Proper Basses for the Pianoforte. W. Blackwood and sons. 1839. pp. 196.
- ^ The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1819. p. 704.
- ^ Elogio storico del cavaliere Paolo Borroni; pittor Vogherese. Motta. 1820. pp. 20–.
- ^ James Rush (1973). The Ingenious Beilbys. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 127.
- ^ "Bird, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2443. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)