1815 in art

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• Events
• Works
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events in the year 1815 in Art.

Events

• April 22 – English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence is knighted.
• Rebuilding of Brighton Pavilion by John Nash begins in England.
• The unfinished Waterloo Vase is presented to the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom who commissions the sculptor Richard Westmacott to complete it.
• Beginning of Biedermeier period in the European arts.
• Académie Suisse, an informal art school, is established in Paris by artists' model Martin Suisse.
• James Pollard's first four mail coach paintings are engraved and published as aquatints in England.

Works

• William Beechey
  • Portrait of Harriet Mellon
  • Portrait of Lord Beresford
  • Portrait of Thomas Picton
• Vincenzo Chilone – The Return of the Horses of San Marco
• John Constable
  • Brightwell Church and Village ^[1]
  • Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill ^[2]
• Charles Lock Eastlake – Napoleon on the Bellerophon
• Francisco Goya
  • The Junta of the Philippines
  • Portrait of Ferdinand VII
  • Self-portrait at 69
  • Tauromaquia
• George Jones – The Prince Regent Received by the University and City of Oxford
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Vasily Zhukovsky
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
• J. M. W. Turner
  • Crossing the Brook
  • Dido Building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire

Births

• February 15 – Eugène-Louis Lequesne, French sculptor (died 1887)
• February 18 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (died 1869)
• February 21 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French Classicist painter and sculptor (died 1891)
• March 15 – Dimitrije Avramović, eminent Serbian painter of icons and frescoes (died 1855)
• May 19 – Thomas Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1885)
• June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, née Pattle, Indian-born British photographer (died 1879)
• July 12 – Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), English illustrator (died 1882)
• September 1 – Emma Stebbins, American sculptor (died 1882)
• November 15 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (died 1891) ^[3]
• December 8 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and engraver (died 1905)
• December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter and art teacher (died 1879)
• date unknown
  • Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (died 1891)
  • Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (died 1869)

Deaths

• March 7 – Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian engraver (born 1725)
• May 28 – Charlotta Cedercreutz, Swedish painter and noblewoman (born 1736) ^[4]
• June 1 – James Gillray, British caricaturist (born c.1756)
• June 28 – Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school (born 1752)
• August 31 – John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator (born 1742)
• September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (born 1738) ^[5]
• November 9
  • Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver (born 1756)
  • Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art (born 1777)
• December 31 – Thomas Burke, Irish engraver and painter (born 1749) ^[6]
• date unknown
  • Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (born 1770)
  • Emma Körner, German painter (born 1788)^{[ citation needed ]}

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