1827 in art
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Events in the year 1827 in Art.
Events
[edit]- Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.[1]
- John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.[2]
- 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.[3]
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Works
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- William Blake – The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides[4]
- Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
- Augustus Wall Callcott – Dead Calm
- 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
- Charles Lock Eastlake – Lord Byron's Dream
- Jean-François Garneray – The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
- François Gérard - The Coronation of Charles X
- Francisco Goya (attributed) – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
- Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Mock Election
- 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
- Horace Vernet
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)[5]
- March 25 – Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
- 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
- Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
- Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)
References
[edit]- ^ Charles Knight, ed. (1858). "Westmacott, Sir Richard, R.A.". The English Cyclopedia. Biography – Volume 6. London: Bradbury and Evans. p. 653.
- ^ Lee A. Vedder (2006). John James Audubon and The Birds of America: A Visionary Achievement in Ornithological Illustration. Huntington Library. p. 32. ISBN 9780873282178.
- ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. pp. 116–117. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
- ^ "The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides". Tate. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
- ^ Edgar Preston Richardson; Brooke Hindle; Lillian B. Miller (1983). Charles Willson Peale and His World. H.N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810914780.