1816 in art

Events in the year 1816 in Art.

Events

February 5 – The bequest of the art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam to the University of Cambridge in England leads to the foundation of the Fitzwilliam Museum.{{cite book|title=Annals of Cambridge: Vol. V, 1850-1856, with Additions and Corrections to Volumes I-IV and Index to the Complete Work|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1852|page=511}}
March 21 – In Paris, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (founded in 1648) is merged with the Académie de musique (1669) and the Académie royale d'architecture (1671) to form the Académie des Beaux-Arts.{{cite web|url=https://www.institutdefrance.fr/histoire/1816-3/|title=Fondation de l’Académie des beaux-arts|website=Institut de France|access-date=1 December 2024}}
June – The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London.{{cite book |first=Ian |last=Jenkins |title=The Parthenon Frieze |publisher=British Museum Press |location=London |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-7141-2200-7|pages=107-110}} (→ British Museum Act 1816)
26 October – 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.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.clarkart.edu/tag/poussin/|title=Poussin|website=Blog.clarkart.edu|access-date=13 November 2021}}

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)

January 15 – Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (born 1750)
February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1763)
June 12 – Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver (born 1742)
June 16 – Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter (born 1741)
July 7 – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (born 1739)
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)
August 26 – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (born 1761)
date unknown
Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith (born 1759)
Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (born 1732)
François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (born 1744)