1816 in art

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Events in the year 1816 in Art.

Events

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
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)
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)

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)
archaeologist (born 1761
)