1819 in art

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Events

• Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.

Works

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819, Musée du Louvre, Paris

See also: Category:1819 paintings

• Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight
• Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
• Théodore Géricault – Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa)
• Francisco Goya – The Madhouse and A Procession of Flagellants
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• Thomas Lawrence – Margaret, Countess of Blessington
• John Martin - The Fall of Babylon
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Births

• January 19 – William Powell Frith, painter (d. 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, artist and critic (d. 1900)
• March 20 – Roger Fenton, photographer (d. 1869)
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, painter (d. 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, painter (d. 1877)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (d. 1877)
• September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, painter (d. 1856)
• December 19 - Arthur Gilbert, painter (d. 1895)
• date unknown – Helena Sophia Isberg, (d. 1875)

Deaths

• January 15 - Gustav Philipp Zwinger, painter and etcher (b. 1779)
• February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (b. 1750)
• May 2 – Mary Moser, painter (b. 1744)
• May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (b. 1739)
• August 1 - Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (b. 1745)

• November 2 - Edward Bird, painter (b. 1772)
• November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (b. 1741)
• date unknown
  • Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (b. 1733)
  • Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (b. 1749)
  • Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (b. 1776)