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.^[1]

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
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel
• 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)