1817 in art

Events in the year 1817 in Art.

Events

 * October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
 * December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).
 * Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.
 * Construction of the Vatican Museum begins.

Works

 * Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
 * François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
 * Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
 * Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
 * John Constable
 * Flatford Mill
 * Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
 * John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
 * George Dawe – Portrait of Princess Charlotte
 * John James Halls – Rear-Admiral George Cockburn
 * George Hayter – The Tribute Money
 * Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
 * Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book (c.)
 * Thomas Phillips – The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
 * Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Births

 * January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
 * February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)
 * February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)
 * February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
 * March 1 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
 * March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
 * April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
 * July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
 * August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)
 * August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)
 * November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
 * November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

Deaths

 * March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)
 * May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
 * June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
 * June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
 * September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
 * September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
 * October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
 * November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
 * November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
 * December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
 * December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
 * date unknown
 * Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
 * Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)