Events in the year 1806 in Art.
January 18 – The British Institution opens its gallery in Pall Mall, London.
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, begins to ship the Elgin Marbles to Britain from Greece.
Antonio Canova – Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (bronze nude)
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Charles-Marie Bonaparte
John Hoppner – Sleeping Venus and Cupid
Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Napoleon
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
La Belle Zélie
Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
Thomas Lawrence – Lady Georgiana Fane (approximate date)
Henry Raeburn – Lord Newton (approximate date)
Philipp Otto Runge – The Hülsenbeck Children
Benjamin West – The Death of Nelson
David Wilkie
The Blind Fiddler
King Alfred burning the cakes
January 10 – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
January 13 – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)
January 25 – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1870)
February 1 – George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
February 22 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
April 12 – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
May 2 – Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
June 4 – Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
July 28 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
September 19 – William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
September 24 – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
October 10 or 12 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)
January 6 – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
February 22 – James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)
March 17 – Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)
April – John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)
April 26 – Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
June 5 – Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)
July 10 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
August 22 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)
August 23 – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
October 9 – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
October 10 – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
October 22 – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
October 31 – Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
date unknown
Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)
Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)
Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer (born 1748/1749) (drowned)
Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1741)
probable – Danwon, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1745)
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