1826 in art

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Events

• December 25 - Opening of the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, containing 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, painted by George Dawe and his Russian assistants Alexander Polyakov and Wilhelm August Golike.
• Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, Kent, where he stays for the next decade.

Works

John Constable – The Cornfield

• Thomas Cole – Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains
• John Constable – The Cornfield
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Bridge at Narni
• Eugène Delacroix – Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
• Horace Vernet – Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
• Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject

Births

• February 18 – Lea Ahlborn, engraver (d. 1897)
• April 6 – Gustave Moreau, Symbolist painter (d. 1898)
• May 2 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian Romantic painter (d. 1903)
• May 4 – Frederick Edwin Church, landscape painter (d. 1900)
• October 1 – Karl von Piloty, painter (d. 1886)
• December 8 – Silvestro Lega, painter (d. 1895)
• date unknown – Serafino De Tivoli, painter (d. 1892)

Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject

Deaths

• February 21 – John Kay, caricaturist (b. 1750)
• March 5 - Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (b. 1760)
• March 17 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (b. 1760)
• October 8 – Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (b. 1768)
• November 26 – John Nichols, English printer and author (b. 1745)
• December 7 – John Flaxman, sculptor (b. 1755)
• date unknown
  • Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (b. 1768)
  • Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (b. 1770)
  • Jean-Louis Laneuville, French portrait painter (b. 1748)