1817 In Art

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Events in the year 1817 in Art.

Events

October 5 – Hokusai paints the "Big Daruma" on paper measuring 18x10.8 m at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya, Japan.
December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).^[1]
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- Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened to the general public.^[2]
- The Vatican art collection is returned to the possession of the Church, with the help of the sculptor Antonio Canova.^[3]

January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)^[6]
February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)^[7]
February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
March 1 – Joséphine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)^[8]
August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)^[9]
November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)

March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)^[10]
May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
date unknown
- Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
- Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)

^ Plumly, Stanley (2014). The Immortal Evening: a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-08099-5.
^ "Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates 200 years of visitors". Dulwich Picture Gallery. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
^ "Vatican Museums". Archeoroma. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
^ Max F Schulz (1985). Paradise preserved: recreations of Eden in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Cambridge University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780521301732.
^ Lara Perry (2006). History's Beauties: Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900. Ashgate Publishing. p. 156.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Daubigny, Charles François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 847.
^ Wilfrid Blunt (1966). George Frederick Watts. Knowledge Publications. p. 2.
^ "Richard Dadd (1817–1886)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/37337. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Sortais, Gaston (1910). "Antoine-Dominique Magaud" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9.
^ Thomas Mardy Rees. "Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817), painter and illustrator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 July 2024.