1819 in art explained

Events in the year 1819 in Art.

Events

• November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.^[1]
• Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.
• 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 – Florimell's Flight
• 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
  • The Madhouse
  • Portrait of Juan Antonio Cuervo
  • A Procession of Flagellants
  • A Village Bullfight
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
  • Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
  • Niccolò Paganini
• Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Générosité d'Alexandre
  • • Thomas Lawrence Portrait of Francis I of Austria
  • Portrait of Napoleon II
• John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
• Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
• Pierre Paul Prud'hon - The Dream of Happiness
• Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner –

Births

• January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
• January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)^[5]
• June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)
• August 11 - Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)^[6]
• 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)^[7]
• 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)
• 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)^[8]
• May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
• June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)^[9]
• 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)^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)^[12]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Mar. Sánchez Ramón. Museo Del Prado: Short Guide. Aldeasa. 2001. 9788480032551. 2.
2. Book: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The Society. 1993. 94.
3. Robert Hewison. Robert . Hewison. 24291 . Ruskin, John (1819–1900).
4. Book: Taylor, Roger. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. October 2006. Oxford University Press. Oxford, England. Fenton, Roger (1819–1869).
5. Courbet, Gustave . 7 . Henri . Frantz . 318–319.
6. Web site: Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904) . National Gallery of Art . January 9, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090509140146/http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tbio?tperson=1381 . May 9, 2009 .
7. Web site: Clarke . Frances . 2009 . Crowley, Nicholas Joseph . 2023-01-12 . Dictionary of Irish Biography . en.
8. Book: The Scotish Musical Museum: Consisting of Upwards of Six Hundred Songs, with Proper Basses for the Pianoforte. 1839. W. Blackwood and sons. 196.
9. Book: The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. 1819. 704.
10. Book: Elogio storico del cavaliere Paolo Borroni; pittor Vogherese. 1820. Motta. 20–.
11. Book: James Rush. The Ingenious Beilbys. 1973. Barrie and Jenkins. 127.
12. 10.1093/ref:odnb/2443. Bird, Edward.