1822 in art

Events in the year 1822 in Art.

Events

• 24 April – Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in Paris^[1]
• 6 May – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1822 opens at Somerset House in London^[2]
• 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

• Louis-Léopold Boilly
  • Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elysées^[3]
  • Moving Day^[4]
• Augustus Wall Callcott – Smugglers Alarmed^[5]
• Alexander Carse – George IV Landing at Leith^[6]
• John Constable
  • The Grove, Hampstead^[7]
  • Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire^[8]
  • Road to the Spaniards, Hampstead^[9]
  • View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead^[10]
  • View on the Stour near Dedham^[11]
  • Yarmouth Jetty^[12]
• Francis Danby – View of the Avon Gorge^[13]
• 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 Vaccino^[14]
  • 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.^[15]
  • 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 IV^[16]
  • The Battle of Vittoria^[17]
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina
• Jérôme-Martin Langlois - Diana and Endymion
• Thomas Lawrence
  • Portrait of the Countess of Blessington ^[18]
  • Portrait of George IV^[19]
• Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Moscow^[20]
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - The Oath of the Ancestors^[21]
• John Martin – The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• Charles Meynier – Alexander the Great Giving Campaspe to Apelles^[22]
• Samuel Morse – The House of Representatives^[23]
• James Northcote – Portrait of John Ruskin^[24]
• 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 Party^[25]
• Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas – Procession of Saint Januarius During an Eruption of Vesuvius^[26]
• J.M.W. Turner – George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh^[27]
• John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne
• Horace Vernet
  • The Battle of Montmirail^[28]
  • Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm^[29]
• David Wilkie – The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch

Sculpture

• Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain (marble)^[30]
• 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)^[31]
• October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (born 1757)^[32]
• October 25 – James Sowerby, English naturalist and illustrator (born 1757)^[33]
• 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)
• date unknown
  • 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)^[34]
  • Mariano Ramón Sánchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (born 1740)

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