1827 In Art

Events in the year 1827 in Art.

Events

* Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
* John James Audubon begins publication of ''The Birds of America'' in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
* English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings '' The Mock Election'' and '' Chairing the Member''.
*Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.

Works

* William Blake – '' The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides''
* Karl Briullov – ''Italian Midday''
* Thomas Campbell
** Bust of Henry Raeburn
** Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
* George Catlin – ''Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls''
* Thomas Cole – ''Autumn in the Catskills''
* Eugène Delacroix
** '' Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha''
** ''Death of Sardanapalus''
* Jean-François Garneray – '' The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier''
* François Gérard - '' Coronation of Charles X of France''
* Francisco Goya ''(attributed)'' – ''The Milkmaid of Bordeaux''
* Hokusai – wood-block print series (1827–1830)
** ''A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces''
** ''Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces''
* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – '' The Apotheosis of Homer''
* Orest Kiprensky – '' Portrait of Alexander Pushkin''
* François Rude – '' Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos'' (model for bronze casting)
* John Simpson – ''The Captive Slave''

Births

* February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (died 1911)
* April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
* May 1
** Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter (died 1900)
** August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (died 1852)
* May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (died 1875)
* June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (died 1902)
* October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor (died 1905)
* Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (died 1900)
* Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer (died 1913)

Deaths

* February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)
* April 21 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
* May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (born 1772)
* August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (born 1757)
* December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (born 1776)
* ''date unknown''
** Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
** Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
** Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1820s in art