1819 in art

Events

• November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.
• Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.

Works

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819, Musée du Louvre, Paris

• Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight
• John Constable – The Gathering Storm
• Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
• Théodore Géricault – Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
• Francisco Goya – The Madhouse and A Procession of Flagellants
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• John Martin – The Fall of Babylon
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday

Births

• January 19 – William Powell Frith, painter (died 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, artist and critic (died 1900)
• March 20 – Roger Fenton, photographer (died 1869)
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, painter (died 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, painter (died 1877)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (died 1877)
• September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, painter (died 1856)
• December 19 – Arthur Gilbert, painter (died 1895)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Joseph Crowley, portrait painter (died 1857)
  • Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (died 1904)
  • Helena Sophia Isberg, woodcut artist (died 1875)

Deaths

• January 15 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, 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, painter (born 1744)
• May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
• July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730)
• July 31 – Jurriaen Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (born 1742)
• August 1 – Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)
• September 15 – Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (born 1741)
• November 2 – Edward Bird, 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
  • Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver and teacher (born 1744)
  • William Beilby, British glassworker and enameller (born 1740)
  • Paolo Borroni, Italian painter of the Neoclassical style (born 1749)
  • Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (born 1741)
  • John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (born 1770)
  • Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
  • Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)
  • Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (born 1776)
  • Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter (born 1748)