1812 in art

Events in the year 1812 in Art.

Events

• The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK.
• Hokusai publishes his first etehon (art manual), Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing.

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – François Rude

Works

Turner – Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps

Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Charles Stewart.

• William Beechey – Portrait of Joseph Nollekens^[1]
• Pietro Benvenuti – The Oath of the Saxons^[2]
• Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Geography Lesson
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Littlehampton Pier
• William Collins – May Day
• John Constable – Flatford Mill from the Lock
• Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini
• Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
• Martin Drolling – Portrait of Adéone
• Alexandre Dufay – The Wedding Banquet of Napoleon and Marie Louise
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Garden Terrace
  • The Tombs of the Old Heroes
• François Gérard – Portrait of Marie Louise
• Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur
• Francisco Goya
  • Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (originally painted)
  • Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
  • The Burial of the Sardine (possible date)
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Interview Between Napoleon and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – The Judgement of Paris
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • Portrait of the Countess of Tournon
  • Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia
• Thomas Lawrence
  • John Philip Kemble as Cato
  • Sir Charles Stewart
• Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier – In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755
• John Linnell – Kensington Gravel Pits
• John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
• Charles Meynier – Napoleon's Return to the Island of Lobau After the Battle of Essling
• François Mulard – The Death of General Causse at the Battle of Dego
• Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry
• Pierre Révoil – The Tournament (Le tournoi)
• Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Henry Dearborn
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
  • St Mawes at the Pilchard Season
  • Teignmouth
• David Wilkie – Blind-Man's Buff

Births

• March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (died 1852)^[3]
• April 15 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter (died 1867)
• May 12 – Edward Lear, English painter, illustrator and humorous writer (died 1888)
• June 30 – Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter and music teacher (died 1882)
• July 9 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (died 1866)

Deaths

• February 20 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (born 1727)
• March 2 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and engraver (born 1751)
• March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, naturalized English theatrical scene painter (born 1740)
• March 14 – Robert Cromek, English engraver and art dealer (born 1770)
• March 18 – Johann Ziegler, Austrian painter of landscapes and city scenes (born 1749)
• March 29 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
• May 92 – James Nixon, English miniature-painter (born 1741)^[4]
• May 12 – William Burgess, English painter and art teacher (date of birth unknown)^[5]
• June 16 – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
• June 21 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), painter (born 1750)
• August 2 – Edward Smyth, Irish sculptor (born 1749)
• August 23 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
• October 21 – Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist (born 1751)
• December 20 – Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (born 1771)
• December 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet (born 1749)
• unknown dates
  • Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (born 1770)
  • Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (born 1759)
  • Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (born 1745)
  • Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
  • Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (born 1727)

References

1. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beechey-joseph-nollekens-n00120
2. Marco Chiarini (2001). Pitti Palace: All the Museums, All the Works. Sillabe. p. 80.
3. Porter, Bertha (1890). "Graham, James Gillespie" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Nixon, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
5. Goodwin, Gordon (1886). "Burgess, William (1749?-1812)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 314.