1818 in art

Events in the year 1818 in Art.

Events

4 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818 opens at Somerset House in London
29 September – Commissioned by the Prince Regent, Sir Thomas Lawrence travels to Aachen to paint portraits of those present at the third congress.{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=D.E |title=The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Colburn |year=1831 |pages=108}}

January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888)
January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879)
January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875)
April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895)
April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891)
May 24 – John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (died 1874)
June 13 – Jean-Jules Allasseur, French sculptor (died 1903)
June 21 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, born Richard Johnson, English francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890)
December 7 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (died 1894)
probable – Alexander Hunter Murray, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and artist (died 1874)

January 5 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (born 1731)
February 28 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (born 1744)
March 7 – Samuel Cotes, English painter of miniature portraits also working in crayons (born 1734){{DNB |last=Cust |first=Lionel Henry |wstitle=Cotes, Samuel|volume=12 |page=284}}
March 15 – Karl Postl, Austrian painter (born 1769)
March 24 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (born 1752){{cite DNB|wstitle =Repton, Humphry|first =William Prideaux |last = Courtney |author-link =William Prideaux Courtney|volume=48}}
April – George Bullock, English sculptor (born 1777){{cite web|url=https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/stories/the-wilkinson-tracings|title=The Wilkinson Tracings|website=Birmingham Museums|access-date=28 July 2024}}
August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (born 1759)
October 4 – Josef Abel, Austrian historical painter and etcher (born 1768)
November 1 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (born 1761)
November 5 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751){{NIE|wstitle=Füger, Heinrich}}
November 19 – Shiba Kōkan, Japanese painter and printmaker (born 1747)
December 10 – Hubert Maurer, Austrian painter of portraits and religious themes (born 1738)
date unknown – Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1734){{cite book|title=The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|year=1982|page=126}}