# 1817 in art

Events in the year 1817 in Art.

## Events

* October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
* December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).
* unknown dates
** Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.
** The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova.

## Works

* Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
* François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
* Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
* Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
* John Constable
** Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River)
** Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
* John Crome – Boys Bathing on the River Wensum
* George Dawe – Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales
* François Gérard – Entry of Henry IV into Paris
* John James Halls – Portrait of George Cockburn
* George Henry Harlow – The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine
* George Hayter – The Tribute Money
* George Francis Joseph – Portrait of Stamford Raffles
* Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
* Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Uxbridge
* John Martin – The Bard
* Raphaelle Peale - Orange and Book (c.)
* Thomas Phillips – The Allied Sovereigns at Petworth
* Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
* J. M. W. Turner – The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
* David Wilkie
** Bathsheba at the Bath
** Sheepwashing

## Births

* January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
* February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)
* February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)
* February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
* March 1 – Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
* March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
* April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
* July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
* August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)
* August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)
* November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
* November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

## Deaths

* March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)
* May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
* June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
* June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
* September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
* September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
* October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
* November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
* November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
* December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
* December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
* date unknown
** Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
** Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)