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.

  Works

• William Blake – '
• Karl Briullov – Italian Midday
• Thomas Campbell
• * :File:Sir Henry Raeburn by Thomas Campbell, SNPG.JPG|Bust of Henry Raeburn
• * Monument to the Duchess of Buccleuch in St Edmund's church, Warkton
• George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls
• Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills
• Eugène Delacroix
• * :File:Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 021.jpg|Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
• * Death of Sardanapalus
• Jean-François Garneray – :File:Jean f garneray painting1.jpg|The grand Dauphin visits a hut, led by the Duc de Montausier
• Francisco Goya ' – The Milkmaid of Bordeaux
• Hokusai – wood-block print series
• * 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 – :File:Kiprensky Pushkin.jpg|Portrait of Alexander Pushkin
• François Rude – :File:Rude-mercury.jpg|Mercury fastening his sandals after having killed Argos
• John Simpson – The Captive Slave

  Births

• February 13 – Frederick Daniel Hardy, English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony
• April 2 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter
• May 1
• * Agnes Börjesson, Swedish painter
• * August Cappelen, Norwegian painter
• May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French painter and sculptor
• June 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter
• October 19 – Charles Cordier, French sculptor
• Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor
• Emma Schenson, Swedish photographer

  Deaths

• February 22 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter
• April 22 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist
• May 6 – François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor
• August 12 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver
• December 23 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals
• date unknown
• * Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, French ébéniste
• * Féréol Bonnemaison, French portrait painter and lithographer
• * Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver