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Events in the year 1811 in Art.
Events
- 29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 opens at Somerset House in London.
Works
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- Caspar David Friedrich – Morning on the Riesengebirge
- François Gérard – Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of George Hibbert
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens
- Francesco Hayez – Aristotle
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis
- Georg Friedrich Kersting – Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio
- J. M. W. Turner
- Apollo and Python
- Hulks on the Tamar
- Saltash with the Water Ferry
- David Wilkie – The Village Holiday
Births
- January 2 – Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter (d. 1876)
- March 20 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (died 1879)
- April 5 – Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)
- May 11 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1893)
- May 15 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter (died 1882)
- July 28 – Charles West Cope, English genre painter (died 1890)
- December 3 – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (died 1889)
- unknown date
- Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer (died 1888)
- Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor (died 1860)
- Auguste Ottin, French sculptor (died 1890)
- Pierre Étienne Rémillieux, French painter (died 1856)
Deaths
- January 8 – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1753)
- January 10
- Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (born 1760)
- Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver (born 1736)
- January 12 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (born 1776)
- January 21 – Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Belgian landscape painter (born 1728)
- February 19 – Joaquín Inza y Ainsa, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1736)
- March 1 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (born 1743)
- March 4 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits (born 1754)
- April 28 – Johann Baptist Drechsler, Austrian painter of flowers (born 1766)
- May 1 – John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (born 1740)
- July 16 – Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher (born 1757)
- July 28 – Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist (born 1752/1754)
- September 16 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher (born 1748)
- September 30 – Antoine Raspal, French painter (born 1738)
- October 5 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter (born 1751)
- October 15 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and politician (born 1735)
- December 22 – François Devosge, French portrait painter (born 1732)
- date unknown – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter (born 1752)