1817 in art

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Events

• Construction of the Vatican Museum begins.

Works

• François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
• John Constable – Flatford Mill

Births

• January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, painter (d. 1903)
• February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, painter (d. 1878)
• February 23 – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
• February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist (d. 1892)
• March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (d. 1878)
• July 1 – Sir John Gilbert, painter (d. 1897)
• August 1 – Richard Dadd, painter and draughtsman (d. 1886)
• November 3 – Ernest Hébert, painter and academician (d. 1908)
• November 22 – François Bonvin, realist painter (d. 1887)
• date unknown – Antoine Dominique Magaud, painter (d. 1899)

Deaths

• March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (b. 1752)
• September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (b. 1792)
• October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (b. 1759)
• November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (b. 1774)
• November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (b. 1754)
• December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (b. 1753)
• date unknown – Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (b. 1754)