1813 in art
# 1813 in art

Events in the year 1813 in Art.

## Events

* June 21 – Battle of Vitoria: The Marquess of Wellington, as victor, reclaims 83 paintings seized by Joseph Bonaparte from the Spanish Royal Collection which he is allowed to retain.

## Awards

* Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – James Pradier

## Works

* Samuel Morse – The Dying Hercules
* Johann Christian Reinhart – Blick auf Tivoli
* J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning
* Willem Bartel van der Kool – Piano Practice Interrupted
* Richard Westall – Portrait of Lord Byron
* David Wilkie
   * Blind Man's Buff
   * The Letter of Introduction

## Births

* January 2 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (died 1879)
* March 4 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (died 1839)
* March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (died 1888)
* April 2 – Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (died 1873)
* April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (died 1879)
* July 28 – Mathilda Rotkirch, Finnish painter (died 1842)
* September 17 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (died 1901)
* date unknown
   * George Hollingsworth, American painter (died 1882)
   * Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (died 1895)
   * Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (died 1857)
* probable date – O. G. Rejlander, Swedish-born photographer (died 1875)

## Deaths

* January 14 – William Marlow, English painter especially of marine scenes (born 1740)
* February 5 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter (born 1744)
* March 22 – Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter (born 1744)
* April 12 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander (born 1751)
* May 31 – Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter (born 1745)
* June 19 – Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (born 1764)
* June 20 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style (born 1756)
* June 22 – Anton Graff, Swiss portrait painter (born 1736)
* July 29 – Valentine Green, English engraver (born 1739)
* November – Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (born 1733)
* November 29 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher (born 1740)
* date unknown
   * Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1746)
   * Edmund Garvey, Irish painter (born 1740)
   * Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (born 1746)
