1820 in art

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Events

Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre

• April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).

Works

• William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
• John Constable – Harwich Lighthouse
• John Martin - Belshazzar's Feast
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – The Lion of Lucerne
• John Trumbull – Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown

Births

• February 28 – Sir John Tenniel, illustrator (d. 1914)
• April 6 – Nadar, photographer and caricaturist (d. 1910)
• May 12 – Josef Mánes, painter (d. 1871)
• July 9 - John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (d. 1887)
• July 25 – Henry Doulton, potter (d. 1897)
• December – Eugène Fromentin, painter (d. 1876)
• December 16 – Sir George Scharf, art critic (d. 1895)
• date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (d. 1897)

Deaths

• January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (b. 1738)
• March 11 – Benjamin West, painter (b. 1738)
• March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (b. 1772)
• May 17 - Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (b. 1747)
• October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (b. 1745)
• date unknown
  • Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (b. 1744)
  • Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1765)
  • Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, decorative painter (b. 1747)
  • Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (b. 1739)