1813 in art
Overview of the events of 1813 in art
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Events in the year 1813 in Art.
Events
- June 21 – Battle of Vitoria: The Marquess of Wellington, as victor, reclaims 83 paintings seized by Joseph Bonaparte from the Spanish Royal Collection which he is allowed to retain.
Awards
- Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – James Pradier
Works
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- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley
- Samuel Morse – The Dying Hercules
- James Northcote – Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel
- Johann Christian Reinhart – Blick auf Tivoli
- J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning
- Willem Bartel van der Kool – Piano Practice Interrupted
- Richard Westall – Portrait of Lord Byron
- David Wilkie
- Blind Man's Buff
- The Letter of Introduction
Births
- January 2 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (died 1879)
- March 4 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (died 1839)
- March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (died 1888)
- April 2 – Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (died 1873)
- April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (died 1879)
- July 28 – Mathilda Rotkirch, Finnish painter (died 1842)
- September 17 – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, English photographer (died 1901)
- date unknown
- George Hollingsworth, American painter (died 1882)
- Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (died 1895)
- Frederick Scott Archer, English sculptor and photographic pioneer (died 1857)
- probable date – O. G. Rejlander, Swedish-born photographer (died 1875)
Deaths
- January 14 – William Marlow, English painter especially of marine scenes (born 1740)
- February 5 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter (born 1744)
- March 22 – Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter (born 1744)
- April 12 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander (born 1751)
- May 31 – Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter (born 1745)
- June 19 – Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (born 1764)
- June 20 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style (born 1756)
- June 22 – Anton Graff, Swiss portrait painter (born 1736)
- July 29 – Valentine Green, English engraver (born 1739)
- November – Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (born 1733)
- November 29 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher (born 1740)
- date unknown
- Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1746)
- Edmund Garvey, Irish painter (born 1740)
- Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (born 1746)