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1798 in art

Events from the year 1798 in art.

Contents

Events

  • English painter Robert Smirke begins to produce The Seven Ages of Man series for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.

    • Works

  • William Beechey
  • George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops
  • Thomas Hope
  • François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche
  • Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Jean-Baptiste Belley
  • Francisco Goya – Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (approximate date)
  • Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole
  • John Opie – Portrait of Amelia Opie
  • Thomas Whitcombe – The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797

    • Births

  • January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture (died 1876)
  • February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals, and frescos (died 1865)
  • March – David Hay, Scottish-born interior decorator (died 1866)
  • April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (died 1863)
  • June 22 – Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter (died 1854)
  • July 16 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (died 1879)
  • July 29 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (died 1840)
  • September 28 – Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (died 1876)
  • October 13 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (died 1868)
  • October 24 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (died 1866)
  • November 29 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher, and architect (died 1877)
  • December 8 – Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor (died 1878)
  • date unknown
  • John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (died 1863)
  • Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (died 1866)
  • Konstantin Danil, Serbian artist (died 1873)
  • William Egley, English miniature painter (died 1870)
  • James Eights, scientist and watercolour painter (died 1882)
  • Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (died 1826)
  • Elizabeth Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died 1882)
  • James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (died 1863)
  • Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (died 1864)
  • Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (died 1880)
  • Henry O'Neill, Irish artist and archaeologist (died 1880)
  • Robert Seymour, British illustrator (died 1836)
  • Rafael Stupin, Russian painter (died 1860s)
  • Henry Bryan Ziegler, British landscape and portrait painter (died 1874)

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (born 1723)
  • January 25 – Cristopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (born 1732)
  • May 25 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
  • May 27 – Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (born 1733)
  • October 30 – Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter (born 1745)
  • date unknown
  • Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (born 1712)
  • Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (born c. 1737)
  • Anton Hickel, Czech painter (born 1745)
  • Richard Newton, caricaturist (born 1777)
  • Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor (born 1726)
  • Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter (b. unknown)
  • Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (born 1740)

    • References

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