# 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 of coloured engravings, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (commenced 1804), is completed in London with the first printing.

## Works

* William Beechey – Portrait of George Cockburn
* 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
** Dedham Lock and Mill
** Harwich Lighthouse
** Waterloo Bridge
* George Cruikshank – Two Green Bags
* Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
* William Etty
** Female Nude in a Landscape
* François Gérard – Portrait of the Duke of Berry
* Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
* Chester Harding – Portrait of Daniel Boone
* Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi
* George Hayter
** Portrait of Lord Holland
** Venus supported by Iris, complaining to Mars
* William Hilton – Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana
* John Jackson – Portrait of Antonio Canova
* Johann Peter Krafft – The Battle of Aspern-Essling
* Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool
* Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
* Thomas Phillips – Portrait of Earl Grey
* Jean-Baptiste Regnault
** The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
** Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)
* Rolinda Sharples – Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples
* Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Beethoven
* John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
* J. M. W. Turner – Rome from the Vatican
* Horace Vernet – La Barrière de Clichy
* 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)