Events in the year 1817 in Art.
Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, designed by John Soane as Britain's first purpose-built public art gallery, is completed and opened.
Construction of the Vatican Museum begins.
December 28 – English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (in which all feature).
Louis-Marie Autissier – Miniature self-portrait
François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn
Antonio Canova – The Three Graces (marble sculpture, Woburn Abbey, England)
Francis Chantrey – The Sleeping Children (marble sculpture, Lichfield Cathedral, England)
John Constable
Flatford Mill
Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill
John James Halls – Rear-Admiral George Cockburn
George Hayter – The Tribute Money
Orest Kiprensky – Young Gardener
January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (died 1903)
February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (died 1878)
February 23 – George Frederic Watts, English painter and sculptor (died 1904)
February 28 – Walter Hood Fitch, Scottish-born botanical artist (died 1892)
March 1 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (died 1893)
March 7 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (died 1878)
April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, Danish romantic nationalist landscape painter (died 1875)
July 1 – John Gilbert, English painter (died 1897)
August 1 – Richard Dadd, English painter and draughtsman (died 1886)
August 4 – Antoine Dominique Magaud, French painter (died 1899)
November 3 – Ernest Hébert, French painter and academician (died 1908)
November 22 – François Bonvin, French realist painter (died 1887)
March 27 – Josiah Boydell, publisher and painter (born 1752)
May 10 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver (born 1751)
June – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (born 1750)
June 4 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist (born 1751)
September – Thomas Wyon, engraver of medals (born 1792)
September 8 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (born 1748)
October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759)
November 5 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (born 1774)
November 8 – Andrea Appiani, neoclassical painter (born 1754)
December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (born 1753)
December 27 – Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (born 1762)
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Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, porcelain manufacturer (born 1754)
Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (born 1772)
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