1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events

4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London
29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.^[1]

January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)
January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)

January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)
February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)^[4]
March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)^[5]
April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)^[6]
August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)
October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)^[7]
November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)
date unknown – Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734)^[8]

^ Williams, D.E (1831). The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Colburn. p. 108.
^ "Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci". Petit Palais. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ Beatrice De Graaf (2020). Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815. Cambridge University Press. p. 178.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1887). "Cotes, Samuel". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 284.
^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1896). "Repton, Humphry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ "The Wilkinson Tracings". Birmingham Museums. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Füger, Heinrich" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
^ The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. p. 126.