1819 in art
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Events in the year 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
- Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight
- John Constable – The Gathering Storm
- Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
- Caspar David Friedrich – On a Sailing Ship
- Théodore Géricault – The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse)
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Pygmalion and Galatea
- Francisco Goya
- 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 – Jurriaan 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)
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