1821 in art

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Events

• At the age of eleven, Théodore Chassériau is accepted into the studio of Ingres.
• John Martin's paintings Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon and Belshazzar's Feast are purchased by his former employer William Collins and begin to tour.

Works

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821

• Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain
• John Constable – The Hay Wain
• Théodore Géricault – The 1821 Derby at Epsom
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Lion Monument, Lucerne
• John Trumbull – Surrender of General Burgoyne

Births

• January 27 – August Becker, painter (died 1887)
• February 26 – Félix Ziem, French painter (died 1911)
• April 16 – Ford Madox Brown, painter (died 1893)
• April 21 – Philip Henry Delamotte, pioneer photographer (died 1889)
• April 26 – Robert Adamson, pioneer photographer (died 1848)
• August 4 – Louis Vuitton, designer (died 1892)
• August 28 – Thomas Seddon, landscape painter (died 1856)
• September 9 – James Smetham, English painter (died 1889)
• November 23 – Charles Méryon, etcher (died 1868)

Deaths

• April 18 - Thomas Baxter, porcelain painter (born 1782)
• April 22 – John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (born 1768)
• May 27 – Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman (born 1786)
• July 4 – Richard Cosway, portrait painter (born 1742)
• August 19 – Marie-Denise Villers, French painter specializing in portraits (born 1774)
• September 10 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, painter and art historian (born 1748)
• date unknown
  • Adam Bartsch, Austrian scholar, artist, and printmaker in engraving and etching (born 1757)
  • Yi Inmun, Korean court painter of the late Joseon Dynasty, primarily of landscapes (born 1745)