1836 in art

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1836 in art

Events from the year 1836 in art.

Events

2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1836 opens at Somerset House in London, the last time the event is held at the venue
June – Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") begins illustrating The Pickwick Papers following the suicide of the original illustrator, Robert Seymour.
David Wilkie is granted a knighthood.
The Salon of 1836 takes place at the Louvre in Paris. A number of battle paintings destined for the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles are exhibited.

Works

Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Queen Adelaide
Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Ada Lovelace
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet – An Episode from the Russian Campaign
Thomas Cole – View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)
John Constable
- Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Diana and Actaeon
Joseph-Désiré Court – The King Distributing Battalion Standards to the National Guard
Paul Delaroche
- Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers
- Saint Cecilia and the Angels
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin – Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea)
Caspar David Friedrich – Seashore by Moonlight
Eduard Gaertner – The Family of Mr. Westfal in the Conservatory
Christian Albrecht Jensen – Hans Christian Andersen
Charles-Philippe Larivière – The Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Hôtel de Ville
Daniel Maclise – An Interview Between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell
Camille Roqueplan – The Lion in Love
Henri Frédéric Schopin – The Battle of Hohenlinden
Rolinda Sharples – The Clifton Racecourse
Clarkson Stanfield
- The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice
- The Battle of Trafalgar
Joseph von Führich – Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd
Horace Vernet
- The Battle of Jena
- The Battle of Wagram
- The Lion Hunt
- The Slave Market
Antoine Wiertz – Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle
David Wilkie
- Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau
- The Duke of Wellington Writing Dispatches
Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III

Births

January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter (died 1912)^[1]
January 13 – Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter of the Macchiaioli (died 1868)
January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (died 1904)^[2]
February 24 – Winslow Homer, American landscape painter (died 1910)+
March 28 – Emmanuel Benner, French Academic painter (died 1896) and his twin Jean Benner, French painter (died 1906)
April 27 – Eugen Felix, Austrian portrait painter (died 1906)
May 25 – Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1884)
September 6 – Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter noted for nocturnal townscapes (died 1893)
October 15 – James Tissot, French painter (died 1902)^[3]
December 13 – Franz von Lenbach, German portrait painter (died 1904)

Deaths

January 7 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (born 1766)
January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter (born 1771)
January 24 - Francesco Alberi, Italian painter of historical scenes and frescoes (born 1765)
February 23 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (born 1768)^[4]
March 4 – Matthias Kessels, Dutch sculptor (born 1784)
April 20 – Robert Seymour, English illustrator (born 1798)
April 24 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (born 1764)^[5]
before April 30 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (born 1797)
October 11 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (born 1753)
October 17 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)
November 10 – William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (born 1762)
date unknown
- Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (born 1766)
- Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver (born 1764)
- Edme-François-Étienne Gois, French sculptor (born 1765)
- Stefano Ticozzi, Italian art historian (born 1762)

References

↑ Helen Zimmern (1902). Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, R.A. G. Bell & Sons. p. 1.
↑ Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904: An Exhibition. Smith College Museum of Art. 1966.
↑ Dominick Pepito (April 21, 2016). Steps in Faith: Learn about Jesus Christ. Catholic Life International. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-692-69907-2.
↑ Theodore Bolton; Irwin F. Cortelyou (1955). Ezra Ames of Albany: portrait painter, craftsman, Royal Arch Mason, banker, 1768-1836. New-York Historical Society. pp. 124–6.
↑ Thompson Cooper (1874). A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries. Macmillan. p. 496.

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[1] Helen Zimmern (1902). Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, R.A. G. Bell & Sons. p. 1.

[2] Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904: An Exhibition. Smith College Museum of Art. 1966.

[3] Dominick Pepito (April 21, 2016). Steps in Faith: Learn about Jesus Christ. Catholic Life International. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-692-69907-2.

[4] Theodore Bolton; Irwin F. Cortelyou (1955). Ezra Ames of Albany: portrait painter, craftsman, Royal Arch Mason, banker, 1768-1836. New-York Historical Society. pp. 124–6.

[5] Thompson Cooper (1874). A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries. Macmillan. p. 496.

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