1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events

 * Sir Thomas Lawrence goes to Aachen to paint those present at the third congress.

Works

 * Augustus Wall Callcott – The Mouth of the Tyne
 * Caspar David Friedrich
 * Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
 * Seaside by Moonlight
 * Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
 * Hiroshige
 * Eight Views of Omi
 * Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
 * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu
 * Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle
 * William Turner – The Field of Waterloo
 * David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)
 * February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
 * March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
 * March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777)
 * Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734)
 * Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734)