1827 in art

Events

• Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.

Works

• Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
• George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
• Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
• John Constable – The Cornfield
• Eugène Delacroix
  • Death of Sardanapalus
  • Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Births

• February 13 - Frederick Daniel Hardy, genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (d. 1911)
• April 2 – William Holman Hunt, pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1910)
• May 1 - August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (d. 1852)
• June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (d. 1902)
• date unknown - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, painter and sculptor (d. 1875)

Deaths

• February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, painter (b. 1741)
• May 6 - François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (b. 1772)
• April 22 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (b. 1756)
• August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (b. 1757)