1827 in art
# 1827 in art

Events in the year 1827 in Art.

## Events

* Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
* John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
* English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings The Mock Election and Chairing the Member.
* Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.

## Works

* William Blake – The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
* Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
* Thomas Campbell
   * Bust of Henry Raeburn
   * Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
* George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
* Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
* Eugène Delacroix
   * Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
   * Death of Sardanapalus
* Charles Lock Eastlake – Lord Byron's Dream
* Jean-François Garneray – The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
* François Gérard - Coronation of Charles X of France
* Francisco Goya (attributed) – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
* Hokusai – wood-block print series (1827–1830)
   * A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
   * Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Apotheosis of Homer
* Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
* François Rude – Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos (model for bronze casting)
* John Simpson – The Captive Slave

## Births

* February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (died 1911)
* April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
* May 1
   * Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter (died 1900)
   * August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (died 1852)
* May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (died 1875)
* June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (died 1902)
* October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor (died 1905)
* Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (died 1900)
* Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer (died 1913)

## Deaths

* February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)
* April 21 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
* May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (born 1772)
* August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (born 1757)
* December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (born 1776)
* date unknown
   * Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
   * Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
   * Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)
