Events from the year 1836 in art.
Events 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1836 opens at Somerset House in London, the last time the event is held at the venue June – Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") begins illustrating The Pickwick Papers following the suicide of the original illustrator, Robert Seymour. David Wilkie is granted a knighthood. The Salon of 1836 takes place at the Louvre in Paris. A number of battle paintings destined for the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles are exhibited.
Works
Martin Archer Shee Portrait of the Marquess of Angleseyhttps://www.rct.uk/collection/401453/henry-paget-1768-1854-2nd-earl-of-uxbridge-and-1st-marquess-of-anglesey Portrait of Queen Adelaide Joseph Beaume – Napoleon's Departure from Elba Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Ada Lovelace Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet – An Episode from the Russian Campaign Thomas Cole – The Oxbow John Constable Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow Stoke-by-Naylandhttps://www.artic.edu/artworks/4758/stoke-by-nayland Edward William Cooke – Portsmouth Harbour Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Diana and Actaeon Auguste Couder – The Battle of Lauffeld Joseph-Désiré Court – The King Distributing Battalion Standards to the National Guard Paul Delaroche Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers Saint Cecilia and the Angels Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin – Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea) Caspar David Friedrich – Seashore by Moonlight Eduard Gaertner – The Family of Mr. Westfal in the Conservatory François Gérard – The Reading of the Declaration of the Deputies Nicolas Gosse – Louis Philippe Declining the Crown of Belgium Offered to His Son Christian Albrecht Jensen – Hans Christian Andersen Charles Landseer Maria The Plundering of Basing House Edwin Landseer – Pen, Brush and Chiselhttps://www.rct.uk/collection/403222/pen-brush-and-chisel-the-studio-of-sir-francis-chantrey Charles-Philippe Larivière – The Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Hôtel de Ville Charles Robert Leslie – Autolycus Daniel Maclise – An Interview Between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell Richard Redgrave – The Thames from Millbank David Roberts – St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor's Procession Camille Roqueplan – The Lion in Love Henri Frédéric Schopin – The Battle of Hohenlinden Rolinda Sharples – The Clifton Racecourse Clarkson Stanfield The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice The Battle of Trafalgar Joseph von Führich – Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd Horace Vernet The Battle of Jena The Battle of Wagram The Lion Hunt The Slave Market Antoine Wiertz – The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus David Wilkie Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau The Duke of Wellington Writing Dispatches The Peep-o'-Day Boys' Cabin Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III
Births January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter (died 1912) January 13 – Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter of the Macchiaioli (died 1868) January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (died 1904) February 24 – Winslow Homer, American landscape painter (died 1910)+ March 28 – Emmanuel Benner, French Academic painter (died 1896) and his twin Jean Benner, French painter (died 1906) April 27 – Eugen Felix, Austrian portrait painter (died 1906) May 25 – Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1884) September 6 – Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter noted for nocturnal townscapes (died 1893) October 15 – James Tissot, French painter (died 1902) December 13 – Franz von Lenbach, German portrait painter (died 1904)
Deaths January 7 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (born 1766) January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter (born 1771) January 24 - Francesco Alberi, Italian painter of historical scenes and frescoes (born 1765) February 23 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (born 1768) March 4 – Matthias Kessels, Dutch sculptor (born 1784) April 20 – Robert Seymour, English illustrator (born 1798) April 24 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (born 1764) before April 30 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (born 1797) October 11 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (born 1753) October 17 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portrait painter (born 1782) November 10 – William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (born 1762) date unknown Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (born 1766) Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver (born 1764) Edme-François-Étienne Gois, French sculptor (born 1765) Stefano Ticozzi, Italian art historian (born 1762)
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