1836 in art

Events from the year 1836 in art.

Events

• 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1836 opens at Somerset House in London, the last time the event is held at the venue
• June – Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") begins illustrating The Pickwick Papers following the suicide of the original illustrator, Robert Seymour.
• David Wilkie is granted a knighthood.
• The Salon of 1836 takes place at the Louvre in Paris. A number of battle paintings destined for the Galerie des Batailles at the Palace of Versailles are exhibited.

Works

Thomas Cole – The Oxbow

The Battle of Hohenlinden by Henri Frédéric Schopin

• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Queen Adelaide
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Ada Lovelace
• Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet – An Episode from the Russian Campaign
• Thomas Cole – The Oxbow
• John Constable
  • Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow
• Edward William Cooke – Portsmouth Harbour
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Diana and Actaeon
• Auguste Couder – The Battle of Lauffeld
• Joseph-Désiré Court – The King Distributing Battalion Standards to the National Guard
• Paul Delaroche
  • Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers
  • Saint Cecilia and the Angels
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin – Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea)
• Caspar David Friedrich – Seashore by Moonlight
• Eduard Gaertner – The Family of Mr. Westfal in the Conservatory
• François Gérard – The Reading of the Declaration of the Deputies
• Nicolas Gosse – Louis Philippe Declining the Crown of Belgium Offered to His Son
• Christian Albrecht Jensen – Hans Christian Andersen
• Charles Landseer
  • Maria
  • The Plundering of Basing House
• Charles-Philippe Larivière – The Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Hôtel de Ville
• Charles Robert Leslie – Autolycus
• Daniel Maclise – An Interview Between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell
• Richard Redgrave – The Thames from Millbank
• David Roberts – St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor's Procession
• Camille Roqueplan – The Lion in Love
• Henri Frédéric Schopin – The Battle of Hohenlinden
• Rolinda Sharples – The Clifton Racecourse
• Clarkson Stanfield
  • The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice
  • The Battle of Trafalgar
• Joseph von Führich – Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd
• Horace Vernet
  • The Battle of Jena
  • The Battle of Wagram
  • The Lion Hunt
  • The Slave Market
• Antoine Wiertz – The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus
• David Wilkie
  • Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau
  • The Duke of Wellington Writing Dispatches
  • The Peep-o'-Day Boys' Cabin
• Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III

Births

• January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter (died 1912)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 13 – Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter of the Macchiaioli (died 1868)
• January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (died 1904)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 24 – Winslow Homer, American landscape painter (died 1910)+
• March 28 – Emmanuel Benner, French Academic painter (died 1896) and his twin Jean Benner, French painter (died 1906)
• April 27 – Eugen Felix, Austrian portrait painter (died 1906)
• May 25 – Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1884)
• September 6 – Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter noted for nocturnal townscapes (died 1893)
• October 15 – James Tissot, French painter (died 1902)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 13 – Franz von Lenbach, German portrait painter (died 1904)

Deaths

• January 7 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (born 1766)
• January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter (born 1771)
• January 24 - Francesco Alberi, Italian painter of historical scenes and frescoes (born 1765)
• February 23 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (born 1768)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 4 – Matthias Kessels, Dutch sculptor (born 1784)
• April 20 – Robert Seymour, English illustrator (born 1798)
• April 24 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (born 1764)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• before April 30 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (born 1797)
• October 11 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (born 1753)
• October 17 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)
• November 10 – William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (born 1762)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (born 1766)
  • Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver (born 1764)
  • Edme-François-Étienne Gois, French sculptor (born 1765)
  • Stefano Ticozzi, Italian art historian (born 1762)