1812 in art

• The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK. • Hokusai publishes his first '' (art manual), Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing''. ==Awards==

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – François Rude ==Works==

– Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps – Portrait of Sir Charles Stewart. • William Beechey – Portrait of Joseph Nollekens • Pietro Benvenuti – The Oath of the Saxons • Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Geography Lesson • Augustus Wall Callcott – Littlehampton Pier • William Collins – May Day • John Constable – Flatford Mill from the Lock • Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini • Jacques-Louis David – The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries • Martin Drolling – Portrait of Adéone • Alexandre Dufay – The Wedding Banquet of Napoleon and Marie Louise • Caspar David Friedrich • The Garden Terrace • The Tombs of the Old Heroes • François Gérard – Portrait of Marie Louise • Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur • Francisco Goya • Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (originally painted) • Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington • The Burial of the Sardine (possible date) • Antoine-Jean Gros – Interview Between Napoleon and Francis II after the Battle of Austerlitz • Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – The Judgement of Paris • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres • Portrait of the Countess of Tournon • Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Livia and Octavia • Thomas Lawrence • John Philip Kemble as Cato • Sir Charles Stewart • Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier – In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 • John Linnell – Kensington Gravel Pits • John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion • Charles Meynier – ''Napoleon's Return to the Island of Lobau After the Battle of Essling'' • François Mulard – The Death of General Causse at the Battle of Dego • Henry Raeburn – Colonel Alasdair Macdonell of Glengarry • Pierre Révoil – The Tournament (Le tournoi) • Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Henry Dearborn • J. M. W. Turner • Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps • St Mawes at the Pilchard Season • Teignmouth • David Wilkie • ''Blind-Man's Buff'' • Boys Digging for Rats ==Births==

• March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, illustrator, and designer (died 1852) • April 15 – Théodore Rousseau, French landscape painter (died 1867) • May 12 – Edward Lear, English painter, illustrator and humorous writer (died 1888) • June 30 – Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter and music teacher (died 1882) • July 9 – Thomas Musgrave Joy, English portrait painter (died 1866) ==Deaths==

• February 20 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (born 1727) • March 2 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and engraver (born 1751) • March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, naturalized English theatrical scene painter (born 1740) • March 14 – Robert Cromek, English engraver and art dealer (born 1770) • March 18 – Johann Ziegler, Austrian painter of landscapes and city scenes (born 1749) • March 29 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756) • May 92 – James Nixon, English miniature-painter (born 1741) • May 12 – William Burgess, English painter and art teacher (date of birth unknown) • June 16 – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788) • June 21 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), painter (born 1750) • August 2 – Edward Smyth, Irish sculptor (born 1749) • August 23 – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737) • October 21 – Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist (born 1751) • December 20 – Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (born 1771) • December 24 – George Beck, American painter and poet (born 1749) • unknown dates • Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (born 1770) • Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (born 1759) • Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (born 1745) • Michelangelo Maestri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown) • Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (born 1727) ==References==