Events from the year 1836 in art.

Events

• June – Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") begins illustrating The Pickwick Papers following the suicide of the original illustrator, Robert Seymour.
• David Wilkie is granted a knighthood.

Works

• Thomas Cole – View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – Diana Surprised By Actaeon
• Paul Delaroche – Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers
• Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin – Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea)
• Caspar David Friedrich – Seashore by Moonlight
• Joseph von Führich – Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd
• Christian Albrecht Jensen – Hans Christian Andersen
• Antoine Wiertz – Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle
• Sir David Wilkie – Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau
• Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III

Births

• January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter (died 1912)^[1]
• January 13 – Giuseppe Abbati, painter (died 1868)
• January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (died 1904)^[2]
• February 24 – Winslow Homer, landscape painter (died 1910)+
• March 28 – Emmanuel Benner, French artist (died 1896)
• March 28 – Jean Benner, French artist (died 1906)
• April 27 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (died 1906)
• May 25 – Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1884)
• September 6 - John Atkinson Grimshaw, painter (died 1893)
• October 15 – James Tissot, painter (died 1902)^[3]
• December 13 – Franz von Lenbach, painter (died 1904)

Deaths

• January 7 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (born 1766)
• January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter (born 1771)
• January 24 - Francesco Alberi, Italian painter of historical scenes and frescoes (born 1765)
• February 23 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (born 1768)^[4]
• March 4 – Matthias Kessels, Dutch sculptor (born 1784)
• April 20 – Robert Seymour, English illustrator (born 1798)
• April 24 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (born 1764)^[5]
• before April 30 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (born 1797)
• October 11 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (born 1753)
• October 17 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portrait painter (born 1782)
• November 10 – William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (born 1762)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (born 1766)
  • Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver (born 1764)
  • Edme-François-Étienne Gois, French sculptor (born 1765)
  • Stefano Ticozzi, Italian art historian (born 1762)