1827 in art

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See also: 1826 in art, other events of 1827, 1828 in art, list of years in art.

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Sir Richard Westmacott becomes Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.

Works

• George Catlin - Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
• Thomas Cole - Autumn in the Catskills
• John Constable - The Cornfield
• Eugène Delacroix - Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Births

• April 2 - William Holman Hunt, pre-Raphaelite painter
• October 31 - William Morris Hunt, architect and designer

Deaths

• February 22 - Charles Willson Peale, painter
• August 12 - William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver