1820 in art explained

Events in the year 1820 in Art.

Events

April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).
Publication of William Blake's prophetic book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (colored engravings) is completed in London (commenced 1804).

William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway
Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)^[1]
John Constable – Harwich Lighthouse
Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
William Etty
- Female Nude in a Landscape
Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi
George Hayter
- Portrait of Lord Holland
- Venus supported by Iris, complaining to Mars
Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Liverpool
Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)

February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)^[2]
July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)^[3]
December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)

January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)^[4]
March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)
May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)^[5]
September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
date unknown
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)