# 1812 in art

Events in the year 1812 in Art.

## Events

* The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK.
* Hokusai publishes his first etehon (art manual), Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing.

## Awards

* Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – François Rude

## Works

* Pietro Benvenuti – The Oath of the Saxons
* Augustus Wall Callcott – Littlehampton Pier
* Alexander Carse – The Arrival of the Country Relations
* Hortense de Beauharnais – The Knight's Departure (approximate date)
* Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Geography Lesson
* William Collins – May Day
* Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini
* Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
* Martin Drolling – Portrait of Adéone
* Alexandre Dufay – The Wedding Banquet of Napoleon and Marie Louise
* Caspar David Friedrich
** The Garden Terrace
** The Tombs of the Old Heroes
* Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur
* Francisco Goya
** Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (originally painted)
** Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
** The Burial of the Sardine (possible date)
* Antoine-Jean Gros – Interview Between Napoleon and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz
* Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – The Judgement of Paris
* Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
** Portrait of the Countess of Tournon
** Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia
* Thomas Lawrence
** John Philip Kemble as Cato
** Sir Charles Stewart
* Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier – In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755
* John Linnell – Kensington Gravel Pits
* John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
* Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry
* Pierre Révoil – The Tournament (Le tournoi)
* Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Henry Dearborn
* J. M. W. Turner – Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
* David Wilkie – Blind-Man's Buff

## Births

* March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (died 1852)
* April 15 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter (died 1867)
* May 12 – Edward Lear, English painter, illustrator and humorous writer (died 1888)
* June 30 – Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter and music teacher (died 1882)
* July 9 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (died 1866)

## Deaths

* February 20 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (born 1727)
* March 2 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and engraver (born 1751)
* March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, naturalized English theatrical scene painter (born 1740)
* March 14 – Robert Cromek, English engraver and art dealer (born 1770)
* March 18 – Johann Ziegler, Austrian painter of landscapes and city scenes (born 1749)
* March 29 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
* June 16 – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
* June 21 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), painter (born 1750)
* August 2 – Edward Smyth, Irish sculptor (born 1749)
* August 23 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
* October 21 – Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist (born 1751)
* December 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet (born 1749)
* Undated
** William Burgess, English painter and art teacher (date of birth unknown)
** Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (born 1770)
** John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (born 1771)
** Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (born 1759)
** Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver (born 1756)
** Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (born 1745)
** Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
** James Nixon, English miniature-painter (born 1741)
** Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (born 1727)
** Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (born 1771)