1827 in art

Events in the year 1827 in Art.

Events

 * Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
 * John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
 * English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings The Mock Election and Chairing the Member.
 * Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.

Works



 * William Blake – The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
 * Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
 * Thomas Campbell
 * Bust of Henry Raeburn
 * Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
 * George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
 * Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
 * John Constable – Chain Pier, Brighton
 * Eugène Delacroix
 * Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
 * Death of Sardanapalus
 * Charles Lock Eastlake – Lord Byron's Dream
 * Jean-François Garneray – The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
 * François Gérard - Coronation of Charles X of France
 * Francisco Goya (attributed) – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
 * François Joseph Heim – Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists
 * Hokusai – wood-block print series (1827–1830)
 * A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
 * Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
 * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Apotheosis of Homer
 * Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel
 * François Rude – Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos (model for bronze casting)
 * John Simpson – The Captive Slave

Births

 * February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (died 1911)
 * April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
 * May 1
 * Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter (died 1900)
 * August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (died 1852)
 * May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (died 1875)
 * June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (died 1902)
 * October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor (died 1905)
 * Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (died 1900)
 * Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer (died 1913)

Deaths

 * February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)
 * April 21 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
 * May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (born 1772)
 * August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (born 1757)
 * December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (born 1776)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
 * Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
 * Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)