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| 1801 |
| | | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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| 1806 |
| | | French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years | |
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| 1808 |
| | | An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J M W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'. | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels | |
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| 1817 |
| | | British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta | |
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| 1819 |
| | | J.M.W. Turner makes the first of several visits to Venice, and discovers a rich seam of inspiration | |
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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 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
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