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

 * Alexander Carse – The Arrival of the Country Relations
 * Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
 * Hortense de Beauharnais – The Knight's Departure (approximate date)
 * Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini
 * Martin Drolling – Portrait of Adéone
 * Caspar David Friedrich
 * The Garden Terrace
 * The Tombs of the Old Heroes
 * 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)
 * 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
 * John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
 * Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry
 * Pierre Révoil – The Tournament (Le tournoi)
 * J. M. W. Turner – Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps

Births

 * March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (died 1852)
 * 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)
 * 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 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet (born 1749)
 * Undated
 * William Burgess, English painter and art teacher (date of birth unknown)
 * Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (born 1770)
 * John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (born 1771)
 * Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (born 1759)
 * Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver (born 1756)
 * Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (born 1745)
 * Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
 * James Nixon, English miniature-painter (born 1741)
 * Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (born 1727)
 * Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (born 1771)