1826 in art

Events in the year 1826 in Art.

Events

John Constable – The Cornfield

Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.

Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras, the first permanent photograph of a natural subject

February 18 – Lea Ahlborn, Swedish engraver (died 1897)
March – Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (died 1892)
March 6 – Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (died 1893)^[3]
March 25 – Wilhelmina Lagerholm, Swedish photographer (died 1917)
April 6 – Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter (died 1898)
May 2 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian Romantic painter (died 1903)
May 4 – Frederick Edwin Church, American landscape painter (died 1900)
May 11 – Ludovic Piette, French impressionist painter (died 1878)
June 8 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (died 1900)
September 24 – George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (died 1897)
October 1 – Karl von Piloty, German painter (died 1886)
November 11 – Elise Arnberg, Swedish miniaturist and photographer (died 1891)
December 8 – Silvestro Lega, Italian painter (died 1895)
date unknown
- William Linnell, British painter (died 1906)
- Novak Radonić, Serbian painter (died 1890)
- Madame Virot, French fashion designer (died 1911)

January 25 – Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (born 1746)
February 21 – John Kay, Scottish caricaturist (born 1750)
March 5 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (born 1760)
March 17 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (born 1760)
July 23 – Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (born 1770)
October 8
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (born 1768)
- George Garrard, English artist (born 1760)
November 12 – Christian Gullager, Danish artist specializing in portraits and theatrical scenery (born 1759)^[4]
November 26 – John Nichols, English printer and author (born 1745)
December 7 – John Flaxman, English sculptor (born 1755)
date unknown
- Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (born 1798; suicide)
- Jean-Louis Laneuville, French portrait painter (born 1748)
- Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (born 1768)
- Victor-Jean Nicolle, French landscape and architecture painter (born 1754)
- Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1757)
- Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire (born 1768)