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1814
 
    
Beethoven's Mass in D (the Missa Solemnis) has its first performance in Vienna, though still incomplete       
1814
 
    
The final version of Beethoven's opera Fidelio has its premiere in Vienna       
1815
 
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Wellington is presented with a twice-life-size nude marble statue, by Canova, of his vanquished enemy Napoleon        
1815
 
   
Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels      
David Comtesse Vilain XIIII and her Daughter (detail) 1816
National Gallery, London

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1816
 
    
Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville has its premiere in Rome       
1817
 
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British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta      
1819
 
   
J.M.W. Turner makes the first of several visits to Venice, and discovers a rich seam of inspiration      
Turner Venice Quay, Ducal Palace (detail)
Tate Britain

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1820
 
   
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain      
1820
 
   
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work      
Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (detail) c.1825
Tate Britain

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1821
 
    
Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischutz has its premiere in Berlin