1820 in art

Events in the year 1820 in Art.

Events

 * April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).
 * Publication of William Blake's prophetic book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (colored engravings) is completed in London (commenced 1804).

Works

 * William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
 * Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway
 * Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)
 * John Constable – Harwich Lighthouse
 * Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
 * William Etty
 * Female Nude in a Landscape
 * Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
 * Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi
 * George Hayter
 * Portrait of Lord Holland
 * Venus supported by Iris, complaining to Mars
 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool
 * Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
 * Jean-Baptiste Regnault
 * The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
 * Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)
 * Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Beethoven
 * John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
 * J. M. W. Turner – Rome from the Vatican
 * David Wilkie – Reading the Will

Births

 * February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
 * February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
 * April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
 * May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
 * July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)
 * July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
 * November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
 * December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
 * December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
 * date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)

Deaths

 * January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
 * March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
 * March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
 * March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)
 * March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)
 * May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
 * May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)
 * September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
 * October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
 * Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
 * Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)