1828 in art

Events in the year 1828 in Art.

• December 3 – The Musée Fabre opens in the refurbished Hôtel de Massillian in Montpellier, France.
• January 1 – The Yankee magazine is founded by art critic John Neal.^[1]

• Thomas Cole – The Garden of Eden
• John Constable – Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond
• George Dawe – Portrait of the Duke of Cumberland
• William Etty
  • The Dawn of Love
  • The World Before the Flood
• Caspar David Friedrich - Ships in Harbour, Evening
• Sarah Goodridge – Beauty Revealed
• Orest Kiprensky – Self-portrait
• August Kopisch – The Crater of Vesuvius with the Eruption of 1828
• Sir Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• James Arthur O'Connor
  • The Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow, with a fisherman
  • A View on the Liffey
  • View on the Shannon, with figures in a rowing boat
• Rembrandt Peale – Self-portrait
• Jan Willem Pieneman – The Triumvirate Assuming Power on Behalf of the Prince of Orange
• Joseph Karl Stieler – Charlotte von Hagn (for Schönheitengalerie at Nymphenburg Palace)
• John Trumbull - The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776
• J. M. W. Turner – Chichester Canal
• Walenty Wańkowicz – Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz
• David Wilkie
  • The Defence of Saragossa
  • Washington Irving in the Archives of Seville

• February 11 – Emily Mary Osborn, English painter (died 1925)
• March 28 – Étienne Carjat, French caricaturist and portrait photographer (died 1906)
• March 30 – François Bocion, Swiss architect and painter (died 1890)
• April 1 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian patron of the arts (died 1925)
• May 10 – James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born painter of the Hudson River School (died 1901)
• May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet (died 1882)
• May 21 – Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (died 1905)
• June 13 – Jules-Élie Delaunay, French academic painter (died 1891)
• June 20 – John Wharlton Bunney, English Pre-Raphaelite topographical and landscape painter (died 1882)
• July 9 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (died 1899)
• July 14 – Jervis McEntee, American painter of the Hudson River School (died 1891)
• July 30 – Paul Gachet, French physician to artists, Impressionist art collector and amateur painter (died 1909)
• November 2 – Edward Mitchell Bannister, African American Tonalist painter (died 1901)
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  • Pietro Pezzati, Italian painter of church murals (died 1890)
  • Jan Wnęk, Polish carpenter and sculptor (died 1869)

• January 1 – Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (born 1766)
• January 4 – Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (born 1748)
• January 23 – Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (born 1747)
• February 28 – Simon Charles Miger, French engraver (born 1736)
• April 16 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (born 1746)
• May 8 – Christian August Lorentzen, Danish painter (born 1746)
• May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor (born 1749)
• July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (born 1755)
• July 15 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French neoclassical sculptor (born 1741)
• September 28 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter (born 1802)
• November 8 – Thomas Bewick, English engraver (born 1753)
• November 17 – Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer (born 1755)
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  • William Billingsley, English painter of porcelain (born 1758)
  • Thomas Kerrich, English clergyman, antiquary, draughtsman and gifted amateur artist (born 1761)
  • Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (born 1778)
  • Giuseppe Levati, Italian painter and designer in the Neoclassicist style (born 1739)
  • John Webb, English landscape designer (born 1754)