1815 in art

• April 22 – English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence is knighted.{{cite journal|journal=History Today|title=Thomas Lawrence|volume=1|year=1951|page=44}}
• May 1 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1815 opens in at Somerset House. It features portraits by Thomas Lawrence of the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher who will triumph at the Battle of Waterloo before the exhibition closes on June 24
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• Rebuilding of Brighton Pavilion by John Nash begins in England.
• The unfinished Waterloo Vase is presented to the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom; the prince commissions sculptor Richard Westmacott to complete it.{{cite book|author1=David Bellamy|author2=Marjorie Lyon|title=The Queen's Hidden Garden: Buckingham Palace's Treasury of Wild Plants|publisher=David & Charles|year=1984|isbn=9780715385906|page=93}}
• Beginning of Biedermeier period in the European arts.
• Académie Suisse, an informal art school, is established in Paris by artists' model Martin Suisse.{{Cite news|last=D'Ivol|first=Paul|date=25 December 1859|title=Feu Suisse|language=French|page=6|work=Le Figaro|publication-place=Paris, France}}
• James Pollard's first four mail coach paintings are engraved and published as aquatints in Britain.

File:Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.png by Thomas Lawrence.]]

File:Eastlake - Napoleon on the Bellerophon.jpg by Charles Lock Eastlake.]]

File:John Constable - Flatford Mill.jpg by John Constable.]]

• William Beechey
• Portrait of Harriet Mellon
• Portrait of Lord Beresford
• Portrait of Thomas Picton
• Edward Bird – The Departure to London
• Vincenzo Chilone – The Return of the Horses of San Marco
• John Constable
• Brightwell Church and Village{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-brightwell-church-and-village-t03121|title=Brightwell Church and Village|website=Tate Britain|access-date=1 December 2024}}
• Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill{{cite book|author=Ian Waites|title=Common Land in English Painting 1700-1850|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2012|page=70}}
• Abraham Cooper – Marshal Blucher at the Battle of Ligny
• Charles Lock Eastlake – Napoleon on the Bellerophon
• Francisco Goya
• The Junta of the Philippines
• Portrait of Ferdinand VII
• Self-portrait at 69
• Tauromaquia
• George Jones – The Prince Regent Received by the University and City of Oxford
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Vasily Zhukovsky
• Thomas Lawrence
• Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Apsley House)({{Cite book |last=Levey |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Levey |url=https://archive.org/details/sirthomaslawrenc0000leve |title=Sir Thomas Lawrence |date=2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10998-6 |url-access=registration|page=26}}
• Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Waterloo Chamber)
• Charles Robert Leslie – The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford
• J. M. W. Turner
• Crossing the Brook
• Dido Building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire
• David Wilkie – Distraining for Rent

• February 15 – Eugène-Louis Lequesne, French sculptor (died 1887)
• February 18 – Baron Leys, Belgian painter (died 1869)
• February 21 – Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French Classicist painter and sculptor (died 1891)
• March 15 – Dimitrije Avramović, eminent Serbian painter of icons and frescoes (died 1855)
• May 19 – Thomas Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1885){{cite web|author=Mark Stocker|title=Thornycroft, Thomas (1815–1885)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27369|access-date=3 February 2025}}
• June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, née Pattle, Indian-born British photographer (died 1879)
• July 12 – Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), English illustrator (died 1882){{cite DNB|wstitle=Browne, Hablot Knight|volume=3}}
• September 1 – Emma Stebbins, American sculptor (died 1882){{cite book|title=A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|year=1899|page=123}}
• November 15 – John Banvard, American panorama painter (died 1891){{cite book|author=John Hanners|title="It was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-century American Popular Theatre|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|year=1993|isbn=9780879725877|page=9}}
• December 8 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and engraver (died 1905)
• December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter and art teacher (died 1879)
• date unknown
• Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve, Spanish painter, son of Juan Antonio Ribera (died 1891)
• Thomas Stuart Smith, Scottish painter (died 1869)

• March 7 – Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian engraver (born 1725)
• May 28 – Charlotta Cedercreutz, Swedish painter and noblewoman (born 1736){{cite book|author=Emil von Maltitz|title=Geschichte der familie von Wrangel|language=de|year=1887|page=328}}
• June 1 – James Gillray, British caricaturist (born c.1756)
• June 28 – Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school (born 1752)
• August 31 – John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator (born 1742)
• September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (born 1738){{cite book|author=Edmund Lodge|title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing|publisher=Hurst and Blackett|year=1867|page=600}}
• November 9
• Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver (born 1756)
• Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art (born 1777)
• December 31 – Thomas Burke, Irish engraver and painter (born 1749){{cite DNB|wstitle =Burke, Thomas (1749-1815)|first =Louis Alexander |last = Fagan |authorlink =Louis Alexander Fagan|volume=60|quote=cites: [Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878).]}}
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• Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (born 1770)
• Emma Körner, German painter (born 1788){{cn|date=December 2024}}

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