1806 in art
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Events in the year 1806 in Art.
Events
- January 18 – The British Institution opens its gallery in Pall Mall, London.[1]
- Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, begins to ship the Elgin Marbles to Britain from Greece.
Works
- 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
- 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
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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)
References
- ↑ Smith, Thomas (1860). Recollections of the British Institution, for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom. London: Simpkin & Marshall and Edward Stanford. pp. 1–12.
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