1826 in art

Events in the year 1826 in Art.

Events

• December 25 – Opening of the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, containing 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, painted by George Dawe and his Russian assistants Alexander Polyakov and Wilhelm August Golicke.
• Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, Kent, where he stays for the next decade.

Works

John Constable – The Cornfield

• Thomas Cole – Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains
• John Constable – The Cornfield
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Bridge at Narni
• Eugène Delacroix – Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
• William Etty – The Judgement of Paris
• Orest Kiprensky
  • Portrait of Prince N. P. Trubetzkoy
  • Portrait of O. A. Ryumina
• Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject
• James Northcote – A Moor
• Joseph Denis Odevaere – Lord Byron on his Death-bed (Groeningemuseum)
• Samuel Palmer – Self-portrait
• Horace Vernet – Battle of the Bridge of Arcole

Births

• February 18 – Lea Ahlb, engraver (died 1897)
• April 6 – Gustave Moreau, Symbolist painter (died 1898)
• May 2 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian Romantic painter (died 1903)
• May 4 – Frederick Edwin Church, landscape painter (died 1900)
• October 1 – Karl von Piloty, painter (died 1886)
• December 8 – Silvestro Lega, painter (died 1895)
• date unknown
  • Serafino De Tivoli, painter (died 1892)
  • Novak Radonić, painter (died 1890)

Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject

Deaths

• January 25 – Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (born 1746)
• February 21 – John Kay, Scottish caricaturist (born 1750)
• March 5 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (born 1760)
• March 17 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (born 1760)
• July 23 – Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (born 1770)
• October 8
  • Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (born 1768)
  • George Garrard, English artist (born 1760)
• November 26 – John Nichols, English printer and author (born 1745)
• December 7 – John Flaxman, English sculptor (born 1755)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (born 1798; suicide)
  • Christian Gullager, Danish artist specializing in portraits and theatrical scenery (born 1759)
  • Jean-Louis Laneuville, French portrait painter (born 1748)
  • Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (born 1768)
  • Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1757)
  • Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire (born 1768)