1820 in art

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Events in the year 1820 in Art.

Events

April 8 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos (Greek: Milos).
Publication of William Blake's prophetic book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (colored engravings) is completed in London (commenced 1804).

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)^[2]
July 25 – Henry Doulton, English potter (died 1897)
November 23 – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)^[3]
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)

January 29 – George III of the United Kingdom, patron of the arts and collector (born 1738)
March 8 – Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
March 9 – Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (born 1744)
March 11 – Benjamin West, American-born English painter (born 1738)^[4]
March 27 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (born 1772)^[5]
May 17 – Vincenzo Brenna, Italian painter and house architect of Paul I of Russia (born 1747)
May 26 – Antonio Longo, Italian priest and painter (born 1742)^[6]
September 15 – Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
October 10 – Uragami Gyokudō, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (born 1745)
date unknown
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)

^ "Reference at www.newsobserver.com".
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Oakes, John Wright" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 289.
^ Munich. Schackgalerie (1911). Schack Gallery in Munich: In the Possession of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia. G. Hirth. p. 69.
^ Charles Edwards Lester (1858). The Democratic Age: Statesmanship, Science, Art, Literature, and Progress. Hale, Valentine & Company. p. 204.
^ Carl Clauß (1883), "Kügelgen, Gerhard von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 305–307
^ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 65 (2005), entry by Chiara Felicetti.

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