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Events in the year 1812 in Art.
Events
- The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK.
- Hokusai publishes his first etehon (art manual), Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing.
Awards
- Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – François Rude
Works
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Turner – Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
- Alexander Carse – The Arrival of the Country Relations
- Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
- Hortense de Beauharnais – The Knight's Departure (approximate date)
- Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini
- Caspar David Friedrich - The Tombs of the Old Heroes
- Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur
- Francisco Goya – Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – The Judgement of Paris
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia
- John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
- Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry
- Pierre Révoil – The Tourney
- J. M. W. Turner – Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
Births
- March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (died 1852)
- April 15 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter (died 1867)
- May 12 – Edward Lear, English painter, illustrator and humorous writer (died 1888)
- June 30 – Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter and music teacher (died 1882)
- July 9 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (died 1866)
Deaths
- February 20 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (born 1727)
- March 2 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and engraver (born 1751)
- March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, naturalized English theatrical scene painter (born 1740)
- March 14 – Robert Cromek, English engraver and art dealer (born 1770)
- March 18 – Johann Ziegler, Austrian painter of landscapes and city scenes (born 1749)
- March 29 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
- June 16 – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
- June 21 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), painter (born 1750)
- August 2 – Edward Smyth, Irish sculptor (born 1749)
- August 23 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
- October 21 – Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist (born 1751)
- December 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet (born 1749)
- Undated
- William Burgess, English painter and art teacher (date of birth unknown)
- Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (born 1770)
- John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (born 1771)
- Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (born 1759)
- Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver (born 1756)
- Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (born 1745)
- Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
- James Nixon, English miniature-painter (born 1741)
- Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (born 1727)
- Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (born 1771)