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Events in the year 1820 in Art.
Events
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Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre
- 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).
Works
- William Blake – The Ghost of a Flea
- Augustus Wall Callcott – A Dead Calm on the Medway
- Antonio Canova – George Washington (installed in the North Carolina State House in 1821 – destroyed by fire-induced structural collapse in 1831)[1]
- John Constable – Harwich Lighthouse
- Johan Christian Dahl – View from a Window at Quisisana
- William Etty
- Female Nude in a Landscape
- Francisco Goya – Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta
- Francesco Hayez - Pietro Rossi
- George Hayter
- Portrait of Lord Holland
- Venus supported by Iris, complaining to Mars
- Thomas Luny – Bombardment of Algiers
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Love and Hymen drinking from the cup of Friendship (Musée Bossuet, Meaux)
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Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples, with her mother, Ellen, in the background, c.1820
- John Trumbull – Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
- David Wilkie – Reading the Will
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
- Okada Beisanjin, Japanese painter (born 1744)
- Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (born 1765)
- Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (born 1747)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, French decorative painter (born 1747)
- Kitao Shigemasa, Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo (born 1739)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegorical, historical and portrait painter (born 1760)