Events from the year 1830 in art.

• 7 January – The President of the Royal Academy Thomas Lawrence dies in London. His friend Turner paints the watercolour Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence depicting his burial at St Paul's Cathedral
• David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV of the United Kingdom following the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
• Clarkson Stanfield's panorama The Military Pass of the Simplon is featured in a Christmas pantomime in London.
• Approximate beginning of the Barbizon school of painters.^[1]

• Edward Lear – Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (first in a series of lithographs.^[2]

• Margaret Sarah Carpenter – Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington
• George Catlin – General William Clark
• Léon Cogniet – Scenes of July 1830
• John Constable – The Glebe Farm
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – The Cathedral of Chartres
• Eugène Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People^[3]
• William Etty — Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed
• Sarah Goodridge – Self-portrait
• Francesco Hayez – Venus Playing with Two Doves (Portrait of the Ballerina Carlotta Chabert)
• Franz Krüger – Parade in the Opernplatz in Berlin
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Aberdeen
• Carl Friedrich Lessing - A King and Queen in Mourning
• Georges Michel – L'Orage (approximate date)
• Luigi Mussini – Death of Atala
• Samuel Palmer – Coming from Evening Church
• Clarkson Stanfield – Mount St Michael, Cornwall
• William Strickland – Nathanael Greene Monument
• J. M. W. Turner – Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence
• Horace Vernet – Portrait of Louise Vernet
• David Wilkie
  • The Entrance of George IV at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
  • The Guerilla's Return

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Hector Berlioz & Alexandre Montfort ("second" First Grand Prize).

• January 7 – Albert Bierstadt, landscape painter (died 1902)
• January 17 - Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, French still-life painter (died 1901)
• April 9 – Eadweard Muybridge – photographer (died 1904)
• June 29 – John Quincy Adams Ward, sculptor (died 1910)^[4]
• July 9 – Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (died 1901)
• July 10 – Camille Pissarro, impressionist painter (died 1903)
• August 6 – Francis Bicknell Carpenter, American painter (died 1900)
• August 12 – John O'Connor, painter (died 1889)
• August 29 – John William Inchbold, pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1888)
• October 24 – Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (died 1890)
• December 3 – Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor (died 1896)
• date unknown – Nikolai Nevrev, Russian painter (died 1904)

• January 7 – Sir Thomas Lawrence – English portrait painter (born 1769)
• February 11 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, Austrian historical and portrait painter (born 1751)
• February 14 – Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor (born 1752)
• February 16 – Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French miniature painter and engraver (born 1756)
• February 23 – Jan Piotr Norblin, French-born Polish painter and engraver (born 1740)
• February 28 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter (born 1756)^[5]
• April 10 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (born 1763)
• May 11 – János Donát, Hungarian painter (born 1744)
• August – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (born 1760)
• August 22 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (born 1771)
• September 15 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture (born 1759)
• September 21 – Louis-Marie Autissier, French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter (born 1772)
• November 8 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter (born 1791)
• November 17 – Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, Flemish landscape and genre painter (born 1755)
• December 7 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school (born 1797)
• December 15 – Moritz Kellerhoven, Austrian painter (born 1758)
• date unknown
  • Pavel Đurković, Serbian painter and muralist (born 1772).
  • Rosalie Duthé, French courtesan and artists' model (born 1748).
  • Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and royal court painter (born 1753)