1807 in art

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Events in the year 1807 in art.

Events

• Napoleon Bonaparte purchases the Borghese art collection, including a 2nd century bust, the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris, where in 1808 it is placed at the Louvre.[1]
• William Thomas Beckford moves into Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection, even though construction has not finished.[2]

Works

Caspar David Friedrich – Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)

• William Blake – illustrations of Paradise Lost
• Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon
• Arthur William Devis – The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
• Caspar David Friedrich
  • Cairn in Snow
  • Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)
• Daniel Turner – Nelson's Funeral Procession on the Thames, 9 January 1806
• J. M. W. Turner – Sun Rising Through Vapour, Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish
• Horace Vernet - Napoleon at the Battle of Friedland[3]
• Hendrik Voogd – Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines
• David Wilkie – Rent Day

Births

• February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (died 1870)
• September 10 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (died 1862)
• September 22 – Ulisse Cambi, Italian sculptor (died 1895)
• October 5 – Constant Dutilleux, French illustrator and engraver (died 1865)
• date unknown – Jean Achard, French painter (died 1884)

Deaths

• February 9 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (born 1743)
• March 8 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (born 1733)
• April 2 – Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (born 1746)
• April 6 – John Opie, English historical and portrait painter (born 1761)
• April 28 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, German-born landscape painter (born 1737)
• July 28 – Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (born 1760)
• September 18 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (born 1745)
• November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (born 1741)
• December 6 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (born 1737)
• date unknown
  • Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer (born 1741)
  • Nathaniel Grogan, Irish painter from Cork (born 1740)

References

1. Mary Beard (25 May 2006). "Sex in the sculpture garden". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
2. Sarah Wise (9 Feb 2002). "The man who had too much". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=S_xyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=horace+vernet.napoleon.at+the+battle+of+friedland&source=bl&ots=bHdl1tdhFr&sig=ACfU3U2tzKoJ9BTNwWei0a93SLHenkVngA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5uufYhanpAhVbVs0KHW4oCik4HhDoATAFegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=horace%20vernet.napoleon.at%20the%20battle%20of%20friedland&f=false