1817 in art

Events

• Britain's first public art gallery, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, is completed.
• Construction of the Vatican Museum begins.

Works

Miniature self-portrait by Autissier. In the foreground, the artist's pencils, brushes, and tools for painting miniatures can be seen. Watercolour on ivory, 19.1 × 13.5 cm (7.52 × 5.31 in), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

• Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
• François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
• Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
• Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
• John Constable
  • Flatford Mill
  • Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
• George Hayter – The Tribute Money
• Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener

Births

• January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
• February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)
• February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)
• February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
• March 1 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
• March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
• July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
• August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)
• August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)
• November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
• November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

Deaths

• March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)
• May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
• June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
• June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
• September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
• September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
• October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
• November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
• November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
• December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
• December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
• date unknown
  • Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
  • Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)