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1802 in art

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1802 in art

List of years in Art

Contents

Events in the year 1802 in Art.

Events

  • The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.
  • Antonio Canova models the bust of Napoleon later used for his statue Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker.
  • Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.

    • Works

  • John Constable – Dedham Vale
  • François Fleury-Richard – Valentine of Milan weeping for the death of her husband Louis of Orléans
  • François Gérard – Madame Récamier
  • Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Apotheosis of French Heroes Who Died for the Fatherland during the War of Liberation
  • Christian Gottlieb Schick – Portrait of Wilhelmine Cotta (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart)
  • Manuel Tolsá – Equestrian statue of Charles IV (Mexico City)
  • John Trumbull – Self-portrait (Yale University Art Gallery)
  • Utamaro – Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (print series)
  • Rafail's Cross (woodcarving, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria)

    • Births

  • May 20 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
  • June 17 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
  • August 26 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
  • December 25 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter (died 1828)
  • Undated
  • Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (died 1871)
  • Henry Room, English portrait painter (died 1850)

    • Deaths

  • April 27 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (born 1730)
  • June 20 – Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter (born 1734)
  • September 12 – Philip Jean, Jersey-born miniaturist painter (born 1755)
  • September 30 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor (born 1753)
  • October 16 – Joseph Strutt, English engraver and antiquary (born 1749)
  • October 24 – John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (born 1748)
  • November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (born 1775)
  • November 15 – George Romney, English painter (born 1734)
  • December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (born 1760)
  • December 17 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish sculptor (born 1731)
  • December 27 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (born 1745)
  • date unknown
  • Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (born 1727)
  • James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (born 1730)
  • Giuseppe Canale, Italian painter and engraver (born 1725)
  • Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (born 1735)

    • References

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