1822 in art

Events in the year 1822 in Art.

Events

 * Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph through his heliographic process.
 * The Mauritshuis in The Hague opens to the public as a state art museum.
 * Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner.

Works

 * Lorenzo Bartolini – The Campbell Sisters dancing a Waltz (marble)
 * Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante (first major work)
 * John Doyle – The Life of a Racehorse (prints)
 * Charles Lock Eastlake – The Colosseum from the Esquiline
 * William Etty – Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (first version)
 * Caspar David Friedrich
 * The Lonely Tree
 * Moonrise by the Sea
 * The Tree of Crows
 * Théodore Géricault – portraits of insane inmates of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget.
 * Insane Woman
 * Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
 * Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus
 * Louis Hersent – Ruth
 * Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina
 * Jérôme-Martin Langlois - Diana and Endymion
 * Sir Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
 * Louis-François, Baron Lejeune – Battle of Moscow, 7th September 1812
 * Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - The Oath of the Ancestors
 * John Martin – The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
 * Charles Willson Peale – The Artist in His Museum
 * Pierre Paul Prud'hon – Crucifixion
 * Pierre Révoil – Mary, Queen of Scots, Separated from Her Followers
 * John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne
 * Richard Westmacott – statue of Achilles (Wellington Monument, London)
 * David Wilkie – The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch

Births

 * February 16 – Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, Dutch watercolorist (died 1891)
 * March 16 – Rosa Bonheur, French animal painter (died 1899)
 * May 18? – Mathew Brady, American photographer (died 1896)
 * June 1 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, née Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming, British portrait photographer (died 1865)
 * August 27 – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)
 * October 7 – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer (died 1898)

Deaths

 * January 14 – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
 * January 22 – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786)
 * February 11 – Arthur William Devis, English painter of history paintings and portraits (born 1762)
 * March 23 – Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin (born 1756)
 * April 3 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
 * April 17 – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (born 1735)
 * May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, American portrait painter (born 1767)
 * May 11 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1746)
 * May 19 (bur.) – Daniel Havell, English engraver (born 1785)
 * September 24 - Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (born 1796)
 * October 9 - Richard Earlom, English engraver (born 1742)
 * October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (born 1757)
 * October 25 – James Sowerby, English naturalist and illustrator (born 1757)
 * November 17 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (born 1731)
 * December 10 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist (born 1761)
 * December 28 – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre Audouin, French engraver (born 1768)
 * Antoine Cardon, also known as Cardon the Elder, Belgian painter, portraitist and engraver (born 1739)
 * Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court (born 1754)
 * Nathaniel Plimer, English miniaturist (born 1757)
 * Mariano Ramón Sánchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (born 1740)