title: 1827 in art
text: # 1827 in art
  
  Events in the year 1827 in Art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.
  * John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Much of the background botanical artwork is by Joseph Mason.
  * English painter Benjamin Haydon is committed to debtors' prison in London; while there he witnesses the mock election in the King's Bench Prison and records it in the paintings The Mock Election and Chairing the Member.
  * Charles Codman is discovered by art critic and patron John Neal.
  
  ## Works
  
  * William Blake – The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides
  * Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
  * Thomas Campbell
     * Bust of Henry Raeburn
     * Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton (England)
  * George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
  * Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
  * Eugène Delacroix
     * Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
     * Death of Sardanapalus
  * Charles Lock Eastlake – Lord Byron's Dream
  * Jean-François Garneray – The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
  * François Gérard - Coronation of Charles X of France
  * Francisco Goya (attributed) – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
  * Hokusai – wood-block print series (1827–1830)
     * A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces
     * Unusual Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces
  * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Apotheosis of Homer
  * Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
  * François Rude – Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos (model for bronze casting)
  * John Simpson – The Captive Slave
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony (died 1911)
  * April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
  * May 1
     * Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter (died 1900)
     * August Cappelen, Norwegian painter (died 1852)
  * May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor (died 1875)
  * June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (died 1902)
  * October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor (died 1905)
  * Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (died 1900)
  * Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer (died 1913)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter (born 1741)
  * April 21 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
  * May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (born 1772)
  * August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (born 1757)
  * December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (born 1776)
  * date unknown
     * Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste (born 1757)
     * Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
     * Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (born 1778)
  