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| 1790 |
| | English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
| ![](/images/treasures/ThumbnailRobertWalkerSkating.jpg) | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail) National Gallery of Scotland
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| 1817 |
| | British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta | |
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| 1820 |
| | French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain | |
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| 1820 |
| | English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work | |
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| 1827 |
| | English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career | |
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| 1832 |
| | 20-year-old English artist Edward Lear publishes Family of the Psittacidae, a collection of his paintings of parrots | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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| 1838 |
| | J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire | |
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| 1846 |
| | Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons | |
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