1820s
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Births: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) - Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) - Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) - Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) - Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) - Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 1895) - William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) - Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) - Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901) - Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Events and trends: first music halls in the UK - first photograph by Nicéphore Nièpce in 1826
Books: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) - Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
Garden in Shoreham (1820s or early 1830s) - Samuel Palmer
The Polar Sea (1824) - Caspar David Friedrich
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape.
Nicéphore Nièpce's first photograph, circa 1826 via
- The Great Wave Off Kanagawa - Hokusai