1831 In Art

Events from the year 1831 in art.

Events

*June 21 – The North Carolina State House is razed in a blaze and therein the roof collapses on Antonio Canova's 1820 statue of George Washington, smashing it to pieces.
* October 29– 31 – The 1831 Bristol riots in England are observed by local artist William James Müller who paints a series of sketches of the city in flames.
*December – Clarkson Stanfield's spectacular panorama ''Venice and Its Adjacent Islands'' is staged in London as part of the annual Christmas pantomime.
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**John Constable, in charge of hanging the Royal Academy of Arts' annual exhibition in London, at the last minute gives his own ''Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows'' a prominent position in place of J. M. W. Turner's '' Caligula's Palace and Bridge''.
**Publication of John Martin's mezzotint illustrations to The Bible begins.
**The New Society of Painters in Water Colours is established in London.

Works

*Sir William Beechey – ''Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen''
*Karl Blechen – '' Tivoli Gardens at the Villa d'Este''
* Léon Cogniet – ''Jean-François Champollion''
*John Constable – ''Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows''
*Eugène Delacroix – '' A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother''
*Paul Delaroche – '' King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London''
*Caspar David Friedrich - '' The Great Enclosure''
* Joseph von Führich – ''Triumph of Christ'' (Raczyński Palace, Berlin)
* Hiroshige – ''Famous Places in the Eastern Capital''
* Edwin Landseer – ''A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society''
*Ivan Martos – Alexander I Statue in Taganrog
*James Northcote - ''Chess Players''
*Richard Westmacott – "The Copper Horse" (equestrian statue of George III of the United Kingdom, Windsor Great Park)

Births

*February 23 – Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch marine painter (died 1915)
*March 12 – Benjamin Williams Leader (born Benjamin Leader Williams), English landscape painter (died 1923)
* July 3 – Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon, French artist (died 1897)
*July 21 – Martha Maxwell, American naturalist and artist (died 1881)
* July 28 – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (died 1898)
*August 14 – Adolf von Becker, Finnish-born painter (died 1909)
* October 26 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter (died 1917)
* December 7 – Joanna Mary Boyce, English painter (died 1861)

Deaths

* January 6 – Ryōkan, Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk poet and calligrapher (born 1758)
* February 2 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (born 1768)
* February 17 – William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (born 1771)
* March 22 – John Warwick Smith, British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator (born 1749)
* April 8 – Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (born 1746)
* May 8 – Emanuel Thelning, Swedish-born, Finnish painter (born 1767)
* May 24 – James Peale, American miniaturist and still-life painter, a younger brother of Charles Willson Peale (born 1749)
* May 25 – Mather Brown, portrait and historical painter (born 1761)
* June 1 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (born 1778)
* June 12 – Pierre Cartellier, French sculptor (born 1757)
* June 18 – Francesco Manno, Italian painter and architect (born 1754)
* July 11 – Richard Duppa, English writer and draughtsman (born 1770)
* July 13 – James Northcote, English painter (born 1746)
* August 5 – Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III (born 1755)
* August 17 – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (born 1787)
* August 27 – François Dumont, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1751)
* September 15 – Christian David Gebauer, Danish animal painter and etcher (born 1777)
* September 17 – Joseph Lange, actor and amateur painter (born 1751)
* November 5 – Johan Frederik Clemens, Danish etcher and printmaker (born 1749)
* November 19 – Carl Conjola, German landscape painter (born 1773)
* December 17 – Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, and influential intellectual (born 1776)

References

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