1813 in art

Events in the year 1813 in Art.

Events

 * June 21 – Battle of Vitoria: The Marquess of Wellington, as victor, reclaims 83 paintings seized by Joseph Bonaparte from the Spanish Royal Collection which he is allowed to retain.

Awards

 * Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – James Pradier

Works

 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley
 * Samuel Morse – The Dying Hercules
 * James Northcote – Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel
 * Johann Christian Reinhart – Blick auf Tivoli
 * J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning
 * Willem Bartel van der Kool – Piano Practice Interrupted
 * Richard Westall – Portrait of Lord Byron
 * David Wilkie
 * Blind Man's Buff
 * The Letter of Introduction

Births

 * January 2 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (died 1879)
 * March 4 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (died 1839)
 * March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (died 1888)
 * April 2 – Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (died 1873)
 * April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (died 1879)
 * July 28 – Mathilda Rotkirch, Finnish painter (died 1842)
 * September 17 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (died 1901)
 * date unknown
 * George Hollingsworth, American painter (died 1882)
 * Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (died 1895)
 * Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (died 1857)
 * probable date – O. G. Rejlander, Swedish-born photographer (died 1875)

Deaths

 * January 14 – William Marlow, English painter especially of marine scenes (born 1740)
 * February 5 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter (born 1744)
 * March 22 – Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter (born 1744)
 * April 12 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander (born 1751)
 * May 31 – Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter (born 1745)
 * June 19 – Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (born 1764)
 * June 20 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style (born 1756)
 * June 22 – Anton Graff, Swiss portrait painter (born 1736)
 * July 29 – Valentine Green, English engraver (born 1739)
 * November – Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (born 1733)
 * November 29 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher (born 1740)
 * date unknown
 * Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1746)
 * Edmund Garvey, Irish painter (born 1740)
 * Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (born 1746)