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  • March 21 – James Sowerby
    James Sowerby
    James Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates...

    , naturalist and illustrator (d. 1822
    1822 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...

    )
  • July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky
    Vladimir Borovikovsky
    Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian painter who dominated Russian portraiture at the turn of the 19th century.-Biography:Vladimir Borovikovsky was born Vоlоdymyr Borovyk in Myrhorod on July 24, 1757. His father, Luka Borovyk was a Ukrainian Cossack and an amateur icon painter...

    , Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

    -born painter especially of Russian portraiture (d. 1825
    1825 in art
    -Births:*February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, illustrator and watercolour painter *March 13 – Hans Gude, painter *May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, watercolorist *May 9 – James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter...

    )
  • November 1 – Antonio Canova
    Antonio Canova
    Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh...

    , sculptor (d. 1822
    1822 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...

    )
  • November 28 – William Blake
    William Blake
    William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

    , English painter, poet and engraver (d. 1827
    1827 in art
    -Works:*Karl Briullov – Italian Midday*George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls*Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills*John Constable – The Cornfield*Eugène Delacroix** Death of Sardanapalus** Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi...

    )
  • December 2 – Pierre Cartellier
    Pierre Cartellier
    Pierre Cartellier was a French sculptor.Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Royale. During the French Revolution Cartellier was part of a team of sculptors who worked on the church of Ste...

    , French
    France
    The 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...

     sculptor (d. 1831
    1831 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...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy
      Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy
      Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy was a French painter known for his landscapes.A native of Paris, Dunouy began his career depicting views of the city and the surrounding region, exhibiting at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1791. exhibited views of the area around Rome and Naples; he showed...

      , French landscape painter (d. 1841
      1841 in art
      -Events:*American artist John G. Rand invents the collapsible zinc oil paint tube, marketed by Winsor & Newton of London.*John Ruskin publishes The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.-Births:...

      )
    • Josef Grassi
      Josef Grassi
      Josef Grassi , also known as Giuseppe Grassi or Joseph Maria Grassi, was an Austrian painter and teacher.Grassi was born in Vienna. He was a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and specialized in portraits. He painted primarily Austrian aristocracy. -References:...

      , Austria
      Austria
      Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

      n portrait painter (d. 1838
      1838 in art
      -Events:*August 31 - David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.-Works:...

      )
    • Joseph Kreutzinger
      Joseph Kreutzinger
      Joseph Kreutzinger , was an Austrian painter and engraver.Kreutzinger was born in Vienna. He was a pupil of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and specialized in portraits. Kreutzinger was later appointed Imperial Royal Court Painter. He died in Vienna in 1829.-References:...

      , Austria
      Austria
      Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

      n portrait painter (d. 1829
      1829 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...

      )
    • Nathaniel Plimer
      Nathaniel Plimer
      Nathaniel Plimer was an English miniature portrait painter.Plimer was born to a clockmaker in Wellington, Shropshire. He was apprenticed to Henry Bone the enameler, before joining his brother, Andrew, in studying drawing with Richard Cosway. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1787 until 1815. ...

      , miniaturist (d. 1822
      1822 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...

      )
    • Guillaume-Joseph Roques
      Guillaume-Joseph Roques
      Guillaume-Joseph Roques was a French neoclassical and romantic painter.He taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was among his pupils...

      , painter (d. 1847
      1847 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...

      )

Deaths

  • February 27 – Pier Francesco Guala
    Pier Francesco Guala
    Pier Francesco Guala , also known as Pierfrancesco and Pietro Francesco, was an eighteenth-century Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth, Casale Monferrato....

    , Italian painter active in Casale Monferrato
    Casale Monferrato
    Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the...

     (b. 1698
    1698 in art
    -Births:* Gaudenzio Botti – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia * Giovanni Francesco Braccioli – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara...

    )
  • March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (born 1696
    1696 in art
    -Births:* Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter * Kim Du-ryang – Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu...

    ), Italian designer, second son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, most distinguished artist of the Galli-Bibiena family
  • April 15
    • Rosalba Carriera
      Rosalba Carriera
      Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures...

      , Venetian
      Venice
      Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

       miniaturist (b. 1675
      1675 in art
      -Births:*April 29 – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice *June 23 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter *October 7 = Rosalba Carriera, Venetian Rococo painter especially of portrait miniatures...

      )
    • Franz Joseph Spiegler
      Franz Joseph Spiegler
      Franz Joseph Spiegler was a German Baroque painter. He is best known for his frescoes, which decorate many of the churches and monasteries along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The frescoes in the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered his masterpiece.Spiegler was born the Free Imperial City of Wangen...

      , German fresco painter (b. 1691
      1691 in art
      -Events:*William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, buys the Metrological Relief, now on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.-Births:*January 16 - Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor *June 2 - Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect -Events:*William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, buys...

      )
  • April 16 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter of frescoes and altar paintings (b. 1694
    1694 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:...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Francesco Albotto
      Francesco Albotto
      Francesco Albotto was an Italian painter from Venice, mainly producing vedute. He was a pupil of Michele Marieschi. After Marieschi's death, Albotto married his widow and took over his shop, and continued to produce paintings in a similar style until his own death, which has led to some problems...

      , Italian painter (b. 1721
      1721 in art
      -Births:*January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV *date unknown**Francesco Albotto, Italian painter **Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver -Deaths:...

      )
    • Francesco Ange
      Francesco Ange
      Francesco Ange was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born in Annesi and trained in Bologna. He joined the Philippine order established by Saint Phillip Neri.-References:...

      , Italian painter (b. 1675
      1675 in art
      -Births:*April 29 – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice *June 23 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter *October 7 = Rosalba Carriera, Venetian Rococo painter especially of portrait miniatures...

      )
    • Ádám Mányoki
      Ádám Mányoki
      Ádám Mányoki was one of the most significant Hungarian Baroque painters of the 18th century.He was a pupil of the great German painter, A. Scheitz. He initially worked as a court painter of Francis II Rákóczi the prince of Hungary and Transylvania...

       – Hungarian Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       painter (b. 1673
      1673 in art
      -Births:*June 11 – Bernard Picart, French engraver *date unknown**Thomas Germain, silversmith **Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter **Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples...

      )
    • Jan Jakob Spoede, Flemish artist (b. 1680
      1680 in art
      -Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...

      )
    • Antonio Maria Zanetti
      Antonio Maria Zanetti
      Count Anton[io] Maria Zanetti was a Venetian artist and art critic, an engraver and connoisseur, and a collector of engraved gems both Greco-Roman and modern, which he published lavishly, in the form of A.F...

      , Italian artist especially of woodcut
      Woodcut
      Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

      s (b. 1680
      1680 in art
      -Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...

      )
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