1838 in art
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Events
- April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.
- August 31 – Scottish-born scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs.
Works
- Asher B. Durand – Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant
- Eugène Delacroix – Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (unfinished; later separated)
- Sir David Wilkie
- The Bride at her Toilet
- Our Sovereign, the Queen Victoria, presiding at the Council upon her Majesty's Accession to the Throne, on the 20th June, 1837
- William Wyon – young profile head of Queen Victoria on coins of the pound sterling
Births
- March 28 – Jean-Paul Laurens, painter and sculptor (died 1921)
- June 11 – Mariano Fortuny, painter (died 1874)
- September 18 – Anton Mauve, painter (died 1888)
- November 18 – William Keith, painter (died 1911)
- November 28 – Alexander Opekushin, sculptor (died 1923)
- December 25 – Raffaello Sernesi, painter and medallist (died 1866)
- December 31 – Jules Dalou, sculptor (died 1902)
Deaths
- January 5 – Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (born 1760)
- January 8 – Josef Grassi, Austrian painter especially of portraits (born 1757)
- February 28 – Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (born 1764)
- March 2 – Benjamin Barker, landscape painter (born 1776)
- March 29 – Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver (born 1759)
- May 10 – José Aparicio, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period (born 1773)
- June 4 – Claude Ramey, sculptor (born 1754)
- August 5 – Anton Schimser, Polish sculptor of Austrian origin (born 1790)
- September 5 – Charles Percier, architect and designer (born 1764)
- November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)
- November 29 – Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (born 1779)
- date unknown – John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter (born 1797)