1816 in art

Events

• The British Museum purchases the Elgin Marbles.
• The Fitzwilliam Museum is founded by the bequest of the art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam to the University of Cambridge in England.
• In Paris, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (founded in 1648) is merged with the Académie de musique (1669) and the Académie d'architecture (1671) to form the Académie des beaux-arts.

Works

• Augustus Wall Callcott - The Entrance to the Pool of London
• Francisco Goya
  • The Duke of Osuna
  • Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón (etching)
• John Martin - Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon

Births

• February 22 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector (died 1888)
• March 18 – Antonio Salviati, glassmaker (died 1890)
• May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, painter (died 1868)
• date unknown - Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (died 1887)

Deaths

• January 15 - Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (born 1750)
• February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1763)
• June 16 - Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter (born 1741)
• July 7 – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (born 1739)
• July 23 - William Alexander, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1767)
• August 4 – François-André Vincent, French painter (born 1746)
• August 13 - Pehr Hilleström, Swedish painter and teacher (born 1732)
• August 26 – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (born 1761)
• date unknown
  • Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith (born 1759)
  • François-Joseph Duret, French sculptor (born 1732)
  • François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (born 1744)