Events in the year 1823 in art.

Events 5 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1823 opens at Somerset House in London

Works

Henry Perronet Briggs – The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plothttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-discovery-of-the-gunpowder-plot-and-the-taking-of-guy-fawkes-36358 John Constable Gillingham Bridge Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds Eugène Delacroix – Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoehttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438110 Charles Lock Eastlake The Celian Hill from the Palatinehttps://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/celian-hill-palatine-56099 An Italian Contadina and Her Childrenhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-italian-contadina-and-her-children-31617 Caspar David Friedrich – Hutten's Grave Théodore Géricault – A Charge of Cuirassiers Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson –Portrait of Madame Reiset Francisco Goya – Portrait of Don Ramón Satué Francesco Hayez Antonietta Vitali Sola Conte Ninni The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet George Hayter – The Trial of Queen Caroline Henry Inman – Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleephttps://www.nga.gov/artworks/214256-rip-van-winkle-awakening-his-long-sleep John Martin – The Seventh Plague of Egypt James Arthur O'Connor – View of Irishtown from Sandymount Rembrandt Peale – Portrait of DeWitt Clinton Washington Before Yorktown Henry Raeburn – Portrait of Sir Walter Scott Ary Scheffer – Saint Thomas Preaching During a Stormhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/M1111160007867 Joseph Karl Stieler – Portrait of Amalie Auguste of Bavaria Gilbert Stuart Portrait of John Adams (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Portrait of Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverushttps://collections.mfa.org/objects/31871 J.M.W. Turner – The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl Horace Vernet Allan M'AulayIngamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French nineteenth century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985. p.275 Portrait of Théodore Géricault Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. p.142 Ferdinand Waldmüller – Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven James Ward – The Deer Stealer David Wilkie The Gentle Shepherdhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-gentle-shepherd-108117 The Parish Beadlehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-parish-beadle-202857 Portrait of the Duke of Yorkhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw06989/Frederick-Duke-of-York-and-Albany

Births March 1 – Charles Callahan Perkins, American art critic and author (died 1886) March 31 – William Hart, Scottish-born American landscape painter (died 1894) May 9 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (died 1906) August 8 – Théodule Ribot, French realist painter (died 1891) September 28 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (died 1889) December 23 – Jozef Van Lerius, Belgian romantic-historical painter (died 1876)

Deaths January/February – George Brookshaw, English painter and illustrator (born 1751) January 22 – John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born British art collector (born c. 1732) January 25 – Johann Heinrich Bleuler, Swiss painter (born 1758) February 3 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, French sculptor (born 1731) February 16 – Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter (born 1758) March 15 – Jean-Louis Anselin, French engraver (born 1754) March 20 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter (born 1764) April 23 – Joseph Nollekens, British sculptor (born 1737) July 2 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameller noted for flower painting (born 1770) July 8 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (born 1756) August 9 – Johan Erik Hedberg, Finnish painter (born 1767) October 21 – Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter (born 1783) December 4 – Luigi Acquisti, Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical style (born 1745) December 30 – Claude André Deseine, French sculptor (born 1740)

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