Events in the year 1811 in Art.
Events 29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 opens at Somerset House in London.
Works
Caspar David Friedrich – Morning on the Riesengebirge François Gérard – Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of George Hibberthttps://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-726143/portrait-of-george-hibbert/ Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens Francesco Hayez – Aristotle Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis Georg Friedrich Kersting – Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio J. M. W. Turner Apollo and Python Hulks on the Tamar Saltash with the Water Ferry David Wilkie – The Village Holiday
Births January 2 – Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter (d. 1876) March 20 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (died 1879) April 5 – Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889) May 11 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1893) May 15 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter (died 1882) July 28 – Charles West Cope, English genre painter (died 1890) December 3 – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (died 1889) unknown date Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer (died 1888) Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor (died 1860) Auguste Ottin, French sculptor (died 1890) Pierre Étienne Rémillieux, French painter (died 1856)
Deaths January 8 – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1753) January 10 Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (born 1760) Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver (born 1736) January 12 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (born 1776) January 21 – Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter (born 1728) February 19 – Joaquín Inza y Ainsa, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1736) March 1 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (born 1743) March 4 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits (born 1754) April 28 – Johann Baptist Drechsler, Austrian painter of flowers (born 1766) May 1 – John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (born 1740) July 16 – Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher (born 1757) July 28 – Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist (born 1752/1754) September 16 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher (born 1748) September 30 – Antoine Raspal, French painter (born 1738) October 5 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter (born 1751) October 15 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and politician (born 1735) December 22 – François Devosge, French portrait painter (born 1732) date unknown – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter (born 1752)
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