1828 in art

Events in the year 1828 in Art.

Events

• December 3 – Musée Fabre opens in the refurbished Hôtel de Massillian in Montpellier, France.

Works

Turner – Chichester Canal

• Thomas Cole – The Garden of Eden
• John Constable – Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond
• William Etty
  • The Dawn of Love
  • The World Before the Flood
• Sarah Goodridge – Beauty Revealed
• Orest Kiprensky – Self-portrait
• August Kopisch – The Crater of Vesuvius with the Eruption of 1828
• Sir Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• James Arthur O'Connor
  • The Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow, with a fisherman
  • A View on the Liffey
  • View on the Shannon, with figures in a rowing boat
• Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
• Joseph Karl Stieler – Charlotte von Hagn (for Schönheitengalerie ("Gallery of Beauties") at Nymphenburg Palace)
• J. M. W. Turner – Chichester Canal
• Walenty Wańkowicz – Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz

Births

• March 28 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist (died 1906)
• March 30 – François Bocion, Swiss architect and painter (died 1890)
• May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter (died 1901)
• May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter (died 1906)
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1882)
• June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter (died 1891)
• June 20 – John Wharlton Bunney, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1882)
• July 9 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (died 1899)
• July 14 – Jervis McEntee, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1891)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Pezzati, Italian painter of church murals (died 1890)
  • Jan Wnęk, carpenter and sculptor (died 1869)

Deaths

• January 1 – Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (born 1766)
• January 4 – Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (born 1748)
• January 23 – Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (born 1747)
• February 28 – Simon Charles Miger, French engraver (born 1736)
• April 16 – Francisco Goya, painter (born 1746)
• May 8 – Christian August Lorentzen, Danish painter (born 1746)
• May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor (born 1749)
• July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (born 1755)
• July 15 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French neoclassical sculptor (born 1741)
• September 28 – Richard Parkes Bonington, landscape painter (born 1802)
• November 8 – Thomas Bewick, engraver (born 1753)
• November 17 – Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer (born 1755)
• date unknown
  • William Billingsley, English painter of porcelain (born 1758)
  • Thomas Kerrich, antiquary, draughtsman and gifted amateur artist (born 1761)
  • Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (born 1778)
  • Giuseppe Levati, Italian painter and designer in the Neoclassicist style (born 1739)
  • John Webb, landscape designer (born 1754)