# 1819 in art

Events in the year 1819 in art.

## Events

* 25 August to 30 September – Paris Salon of 1819.
* November – The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.
* unknown date – The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, creating the nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection.

## Works

* Washington Allston – The Flight of Florimell
* John Constable – The Gathering Storm
* Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
* Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
* Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
* Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
* Francisco Goya
** The Madhouse
** Portrait of Juan Antonio Cuervo
** A Procession of Flagellants
** A Village Bullfight
* Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
* Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
* Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres –
** Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca
** Niccolò Paganini
* Jérôme-Martin Langlois – Generosity of Alexander
* Thomas Lawrence
** Portrait of Archduke Charles
** Portrait of Francis I of Austria
** Portrait of Napoleon II
** Portrait of Pope Pius VII
** Portrait of Selina Meade
* Louis-François Lejeune – Attack on a large convoy at Salinas
* John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
* Samuel Morse – Portrait of James Monroe
* Joseph Paelinck – William I of the Netherlands
* Pierre Paul Prud'hon – The Dream of Happiness
* Henry Raeburn – Francis MacNab, The MacNab
* Pierre Révoil – Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen
* Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
* John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
* J. M. W. Turner
** England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday
** Entrance of the Meuse
* Horace Vernet
** Massacre of the Mamelukes
** The Dog of the Regiment Wounded
** The Wounded Trumpeter

## Births

* January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (died 1886)
* January 9 – William Powell Frith, English genre painter (died 1909)
* February 8 – John Ruskin, English artist and critic (died 1900)
* February 16 – Sophia Isberg, Swedish woodcut artist (died 1875)
* February 23 – John Webb Singer, English art founder and collector (died 1904)
* March 20 – Roger Fenton, English photographer (died 1869)
* June 3 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (died 1891)
* June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)
* June 16 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned 1881)
* June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, American portrait painter (died 1877)
* August 11 – Martin Johnson Heade, American painter (died 1904)
* June 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter (died 1916)
* September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (died 1856)
* December 6 – Nicholas Joseph Crowley, Irish portrait painter (died 1857)
* December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (died 1895)
* date unknown – Edwin Hayes, British marine watercolourist (died 1904)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter and etcher (born 1779)
* February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
* March 4 – Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Austrian painter (born 1736)
* May 2 – Mary Moser, English painter (born 1744)
* May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
* May 19 – Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)
* May 21 – Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)
* June 23 – Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744)
* July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
* July 31 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
* August – Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)
* August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
* August 27 – John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
* September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
* October 8 – William Beilby, English glassworker and enameller (born 1740)
* November 2 – Edward Bird, English genre painter (born 1772)
* November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
* November 11 – Moses Griffith, Welsh draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (born 1749)
* December 3 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (born 1766)
* date unknown
** Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
** Anna Sibylla Sergell, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
** Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish embroiderer and textile artiste (born 1776)