1816 in art

Events in the year 1816 in Art.

• The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London.
• The Fitzwilliam Museum is founded by the bequest of the art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam to the University of Cambridge in England.
• In Paris, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (founded in 1648) is merged with the Académie de musique (1669) and the Académie royale d'architecture (1671) to form the Académie des beaux-arts.
• Penance from Nicholas Poussin's first of two Seven Sacraments painting cycles owned by the Duke of Rutland is destroyed by fire at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, England.^[1]

• Cádiz Memorial (London)
• Augustus Wall Callcott – The Entrance to the Pool of London
• John James Chalon – Napoleon on board the Bellerophon
• John Constable – Wivenhoe Park
• Pavel Đurković – Portrait of Vuk Karadžić
• Francisco Goya
  • The Duke of Osuna
  • Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón (etching)
• Charles Robert Leslie – Portrait of John Quincy Adams
• John Linnell – Portrait of Richard Trevithick
• John Martin – Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon

• February 22 – Thomas Gambier Parry, English artist and art collector (died 1888)
• March 18 – Antonio Salviati, Italian glassmaker (died 1890)
• May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, German American painter (died 1868)
• date unknown – Paul Emile Chappuis, French-born photographer (died 1887)

• January 15 – Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (born 1750)
• February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1763)
• June 12 – Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver (born 1742)
• June 16 – Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter (born 1741)
• July 7 – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (born 1739)
• July 11 – Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (born 1746)
• July 23 – William Alexander, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1767)
• August 4 – François-André Vincent, French painter (born 1746)
• August 7 – François-Joseph Duret, French sculptor (born 1732)
• August 13 – Pehr Hilleström, Swedish painter and teacher (born 1732)
• August 26 – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (born 1761)
• date unknown
  • Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith (born 1759)
  • Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (born 1732)
  • François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (born 1744)