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Events in the year 1811 in Art.

Events

• 29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 opens at Somerset House in London.^[1]

Works

• Caspar David Freidrich – Morning on the Riesengebirge
• François Gérard – Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte
• 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
  • Somer Hill, Tonbridge
• 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)^[2]
• Undated
  • 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)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• 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)

References