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- January 24 – Johann Christian ReinhartJohann Christian ReinhartJohann Christian Reinhart was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the founders, along with Joseph Anton Koch, of German romantic classical landscape painting.-Biography:...
, German painter and etcher (died 18471847 in art-Events:*William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.-Works:*Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus*Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight...
) - May – John OpieJohn OpieJohn Opie was an English historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, most notably in the artistic and literary professions.-Life and work:...
, historical and portrait painter (died 18071807 in art-Events:*Completion of Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection of William Thomas Beckford.-Works:*David Wilkie – Rent Day*Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon-Births:*February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, glass painter...
) - July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter (died 18451845 in art-Events:*February 7 – The Portland Vase is destroyed by a drunk. It has since been reconstructed three times.-Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Countess Haussonville*Jan August Hendrik Leys – Franz Floris se rendant a une fête...
) - October 11 – Mather BrownMather BrownMather Brown was a portrait and historical painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, but active in England....
, portrait and historical painter (died 18311831 in art-Events:*Clarkson Stanfield's spectacular panorama Venice and Its Adjacent Islands is staged in London as part of the annual Christmas pantomime.-Births:*October 26 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter *date unknown...
) - October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoléon (died 18241824 in art-Events:*April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London....
) - November 4 – Bertrand AndrieuBertrand AndrieuBertrand Andrieu was a French engraver of medals from Bordeaux. In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
engraver and medalist (died 18221822 in art-Works:*Nicéphore Niépce creates first permanent photograph through his heliographic process*Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante *Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus*Louis Hersent – Ruth...
) - December 1 – Marie TussaudMarie TussaudAnna Maria Tussaud was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.- Biography :...
, wax modeller of the Madame Tussauds Wax MuseumMadame TussaudsMadame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud's", but the apostrophe is no longer used...
(died 18501850 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...
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- Sakai HōitsuSakai Hoitsuwas a Japanese painter of the Rimpa school. He is famous for reviving the style and popularity of Ogata Kōrin, and for creating a number of reproductions of Kōrin's work.-Family background:...
, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (died 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - Zhang YinZhang Yin (painter)Zhang Yin was a famed calligrapher and painter of Qing Dynasty China. A native Dantu , he belonged to the Dantu School....
, Chinese calligrapher and painter of Qing DynastyQing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
(died 18291829 in art-Events:*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.-Paintings:*Karl Blechen – Tivoli*Eugène Delacroix – Sardanapalus...
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- Sakai Hōitsu
- probable – Robert FaganRobert FaganRobert Fagan was an Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist.-Career:The son of Cork immigrants, Fagan was born in London. As an archaeologist he traveled to Italy and was involved in the excavations near Laurentum, which resulted in the discovery of the Venus at the Capitoline. Fagan then...
, IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
painter, diplomat and archaeologist (died 18161816 in art-Births:*February 22 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector *March 18 – Antonio Salviati, glassmaker *May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, painter * date unknown**Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer -Deaths:...
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Deaths
- April 4 – Theodore GardelleTheodore GardelleTheodore Gardelle was a Swiss painter and enameller.He was born in Geneva, where he studied portrait miniature painting. Having acquired its first rudiments, he went to Paris in 1744. There he gained great proficiency in the art. He lived there studying and painting until 1750...
, painter and enameller (born 17221722 in art-Births:*March 6 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter *July 16 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and a founding member of the Royal Academy *October 3 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, member of the Tischbein dynasty of German painters...
) (executed for murder) - July 21 – Louis GallocheLouis GallocheLouis Galloche was a French painter. A student of Louis de Boullogne, his own students included François Lemoyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.-Life:...
, French painter (born 16701670 in art-Paintings:*Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede*Vermeer - The Lacemaker-Births:*January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter *August 24 – Louis Galloche, French painter *date unknown...
) - August 18 – François Gaspard AdamFrançois Gaspard AdamFrançois Gaspard Adam was a French rococo sculptor.A member of the Adam family of painters, François was born at Nancy, and studied under his father, Jacob-Sigisbert. He later followed his two brothers to Rome in 1730, before moving to Paris...
, French rococoRococoRococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
sculptor (born 17101710 in art-Births:*March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer *May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect *May 23 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor...
) - September 7 – Johann Wolfgang BaumgartnerJohann Wolfgang BaumgartnerJohann Wolfgang Baumgartner was a German painter.-External links:*...
, German painter (born 17021702 in art-Births:*July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter *August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 *December 22 - Jean-Etienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter *date unknown...
) - December 10 – Johann Georg PlatzerJohann Georg PlatzerJohann Georg Platzer was an Austrian painter and draughtsman.Platzer was born in Eppan in the County of Tyrol, and came from a family of painters. He painted primarily primarily historical and mythical scenes. Platzer worked with his uncle as a court painter in Passau. He returned to Eppan where...
, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes (b. 17041704 in art-Works:*Paolo Alessandro Maffei - Engraving of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus-Births:*February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor *May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor...
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- Ottone HameraniOttone HameraniOttone Hamerani , also known as Otto Hamerani, was an Italian medallist.Hamerani was born in Rome, Italy, the son of another medallist Giovanni Hamerani. He worked with several popes in producing coins, and was named Master of the Mint at Rome from 1734 until his death in 1768. -References:...
, Italian medalMedalA medal, or medallion, is generally a circular object that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way rendered with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering. A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for athletic, military, scientific,...
list (b. 16941694 in art-Events:* Fair, from a copy of the 14th century Siyar-i Nabi of al-Zarir, Istanbul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at New York Public Library, New York Spencer Collection.-Births:...
) - Mary RobertsMary Roberts (painter)Mary Roberts was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies, she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory...
, miniaturist - Ivan VishnyakovIvan VishnyakovIvan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov was a Russian painter.Vishnyakov was born in Moscow. He was a pupil of Louis Caravaque, a French artist, who worked in Russia. Vishnyakov worked in the painting department of the Ministry of Construction, and painted primarily portraits at that time...
, Russian painter (b. 16991699 in art-Births:*March 26 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter * Giuseppe Grisoni, painter * Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter...
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- Ottone Hamerani