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Overview of the events of 1820 in art
Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre
Works
Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples, with her mother, Ellen, in the background, c.1820
Births
- February 18 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk, French sculptor (died 1885)
- February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)
- April 6 – Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (died 1910)
- May 12 – Josef Mánes, Czech painter (died 1871)
- July 9 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (died 1887)
- July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
- December – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (died 1876)
- December 16 – George Scharf, English art critic and curator (died 1895)
- date unknown – John Frederick Herring, Jr., English sporting and equestrian painter (died 1897)
Deaths
- January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
- March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
- March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)
- March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)
- May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
- October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
- date unknown
