1814 in art

Events in the year 1814 in Art.

Goya – The Third of May 1808 (1814)

Lawrence – Portrait of Marshal Blücher.

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1814 opens at Somerset House in London.^[1]
• 5 November – The Salon of 1814 opens at the Louvre in Paris, the first to take place following the Bourbon Restoration.^[2]
• A Madonna of St Jerome by Antonio da Correggio is returned to Parma, eighteen years after being looted by the French.

Works

• Jean-Antoine Alavoine – The Elephant of the Bastille (full-size model)
• Edward Bird – The Cheat Detected^[3]
• Merry-Joseph Blondel - La Circassienne au Bain
• Antonio Canova – The Three Graces
• John Constable
  • The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814^[4]
  • The Mill Stream^[5]
• John Singleton Copley – The Battle of the Pyrenees^[6]
• Louis-Philippe Crépin – Louis XVIII Raising France from Its Ruins^[7]
• John Crome – The River Wensum, Norwich^[8]
• George Cruikshank
  • The Allied Bakers^[9]
  • The Corsican Shuttlecock^[10]
• Louis Daguerre – Interior of a Chapel of the Church of the Feuillants
• Jacques-Louis David
  • Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great^[11]
  • Leonidas at Thermopylae^[12]
• Charles Lock Eastlake – Brutus Exhorting the Romans to Revenge the Death of Lucretia^[13]
• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg – View of the Forum in Rome^[14]
• François Gérard – Portrait of the Duke of Wellington^[15]
• Francisco Goya
  • The Second of May 1808
  • The Third of May 1808
• John James Halls – Edmund Kean as Richard III^[16]
• Hokusai
  • The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (woodcut)
  • Hokusai Manga (publication begins)
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • Grande Odalisque
  • Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel^[17]
  • Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples
  • Raphael and La Fornarina
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of Marshal Blücher
• John Smith of Darnick – William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde
• Thomas Phillips
  • Portrait of the Duke of Wellington^[18]
  • Portrait of Lord Byron^[19]
• Henry Raeburn – Boy and Rabbit^[20]
• J.M.W. Turner – Dido and Aeneas^[21]
• James Ward – Gordale Scar^[22]
• David Wilkie
  • The Pedlar^[23]
  • The Refusal^[24]

Births

• January 17 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (died 1872)^[25]
• February 18 – Gustav Fabergé, Baltic German jeweller (died 1894)
• March 3 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter (died 1888)
• March 9 (February 25 O.S.) – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and artist (died 1861)
• March 22 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (died 1857)
• May 21 – Louis Janmot, French painter and poet (died 1892)
• May 22 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (died 1891)
• July – Charles Lucy, English historical painter (died 1873)
• July 13 – Johann Halbig, German classicist sculptor (died 1882)
• August 26 – Johann Pucher, Slovene Catholic priest, inventor, scientist, photographer, artist and poet (died 1864)
• September 1 – John Cooke Bourne, English topographical artist, lithographer and photographer (died 1896)
• September 15 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect and watercolour painter (died 1866)
• October 4 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (died 1875)
• October 12 – Ernest Gambart, Belgian-born art dealer (died 1902)
• date unknown – Frederick William Fairholt, English engraver (died 1866)

Deaths

• January 5 – Johann Friedrich Bause, German engraver (born 1738)
• January 20 – Jean-François Pierre Peyron, French neoclassical painter (born 1744)
• January 28 – Pierre Lacour, French painter (born 1745)
• February 26 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor born in Stockholm (born 1740)^[26]
• February 27 – Margaret Bingham, British painter and writer (born 1740)
• March 29 – Claude Michel, French sculptor in the Rococo style (born 1738)
• May 31 – Arend Johan van Glinstra, Dutch painter (born 1754)
• June 17 – Henry Tresham, Irish-born painter of large-scale history paintings (born 1751)
• August 21 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter in the Neoclassical style (born 1748)
• November 18 – Aleijadinho, Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (born 1730/1738)
• November 30 – Jean-Michel Moreau, illustrator and engraver (born 1741)
• December 22 – Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (born 1760)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (born 1753)
  • Grigory Ostrovsky, Russian portraitist (born 1756)
  • Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (born 1763)

References

1. Martin Myrone. "1814 Family Affairs". Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: Chronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
2. Daniel Harkett; Katie Hornstein (2017). Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press. p. 203.
3. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cheat-detected-123948
4. "The Celebration of the General Peace of 1814 in East Bergholt".
5. "The Mill Stream, Willy Lott's House | Art UK". artuk.org.
6. Wellesley, Charles. Wellington Portrayed. Unicorn Press, 2014. p.138
7. Crow, Thomas. Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820. Princeton University Press, 2023. p.34-35
8. "The River Wensum, Norwich B1981.25.182 | YCBA Collections Search". collections.britishart.yale.edu.
9. "print; satirical print | British Museum".
10. "Bodleian Library Curzon b.31(34)". digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
11. "Apelle peignant Campaspe en présence d'Alexandre - POP". pop.culture.gouv.fr.
12. "Léonidas aux Thermopyles". January 16, 1814 – via Musée du Louvre.
13. "Brutus Exhorting the Romans to Revenge the Death of Lucretia | Art UK". artuk.org.
14. "Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | View of the Forum in Rome | NG6543 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
15. "Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal and Prime Minister | Art UK". artuk.org.
16. "Edmund Kean (1787–1833), as Richard in 'Richard III' by William Shakespeare | Art UK". artuk.org.
17. "Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres". www.nga.gov.
18. Wellesley, Charles. Wellington Portrayed. Unicorn Press, 2014. p.197-98
19. Shears Jonathon & Rawes, Alan. The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron. Oxford University Press, 2024. p.497
20. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/boy-and-rabbit
21. "'Dido and Aeneas', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1814". Tate.
22. "'Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)', James Ward, ?1812–4, exhibited 1815". Tate.
23. "The Pedlar B1986.17 | YCBA Collections Search". collections.britishart.yale.edu.
24. "The Refusal | Art UK". artuk.org.
25. William Vernon Kinietz (1942). John Mix Stanley and His Indian Paintings. University of Michigan Press. p. 3.
26. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sergel, Johan Tobias" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.