1793_in_art
1793 in art
Overview of the events of 1793 in art
Events from the year 1793 in art.
- August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings.
- Henry Fuseli begins to paints scenes from Paradise Lost.
- Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising.
- William Beechey – Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy
- William Blake – For Children: The Gates of Paradise (engravings)
- Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (marble statue, 1st version, commissioned 1787, enters Louvre 1824)
- Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat
- Francisco Goya – Attack on a Coach
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Siege of Valenciennes
- John Opie – Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
- François Marie Suzanne – terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin
- Utamaro – Three Beauties of the Present Day (nishiki-e color woodblock print; approximate date)
- January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (died 1865)[1]
- February 13 – Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (died 1887)
- June 1 – Augustus Earle, English artist (died 1838)[2]
- June 3 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (died 1873)
- July 19 – Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (died 1856)[3]
- August 3 – Jacques-Jean Barre, French engraver and designer of French medals, the Great Seal of France, bank notes and postage stamps (died 1855)
- October 11 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (died 1865)[4]
- November 3 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (died 1875)
- November 5 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (died 1860)
- November 16 – Francis Danby, Irish landscape painter from the south of Ireland (died 1861)
- November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (died 1865)[5]
- November 25 – Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America (died 1878)
- December 3 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter (died 1867)
- December 7 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (died 1879)
- date unknown
- Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter (died 1844)
- Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, English portrait painter (died 1872)[6]
- Erin Corr, Irish engraver (died 1862)
- Angelus de Baets, Belgian painter of portraits and architectural subjects (died 1855)
- Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher and devout Confucian scholar (died 1867)
- Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subject painter (died 1861)
- Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort, French artist painting in oil and watercolours (died 1861)
- Václav Mánes, Czech painter (died 1858)
- Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1868)
- Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (died 1837)
- Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (died 1868)
- Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (died 1841)
- January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (born 1712)[7]
- March 2 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born painter (born 1711)[8]
- May 15 - Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to miniature painting (born 1739)
- May 29 – John Webber, English landscape artist (born 1751)
- July 5
- Alexander Roslin, Swedish portrait painter (born 1718)
- Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1710)
- September 9 – Peter Perez Burdett, English draughtsman (born c.1734)
- October 5 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement Illustrious Absolutism (born 1737)
- November – Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (born 1719)
- November 7 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (born 1724)[9]
- November 20 – Teodor Ilić Češljar, Serbian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo period of Vojvodina (born 1746)
- December 13 – Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (born 1726)
- date unknown
- Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1746)
- Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (born 1723)
- Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (born 1724)
- Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (born 1744)[10]
- Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (born 1746)
- Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (born 1720)[11]
- Dominic Serres "the Elder", French-born marine painter (born 1722)
- Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1723)
- Bruno Grimschitz (1961). The Old Vienna School of Painting. Wolfrum. p. 16.
- Australian National Gallery; Tim Bonyhady (1986). Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery. Australian National Gallery. p. 90-92. ISBN 978-0-642-88758-0.
- Thomas Doughty; Frank Henry Goodyear (1973). Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. 11.
- "Johan Erik Lindh". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). 16. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- John Hannavy (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 461. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
- South Kensington Museum (1888). A Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington. Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 43.
- Jane Martineau; Andrew Robison; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1994). The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-300-06186-4.
- Gunnar Jungmarker (1973). Carl Gustaf Pilo som tecknare: Av Gunnar Jungmarker (in Swedish). Nationalmuseum; Allmänna förl. p. 80. ISBN 978-91-38-01567-4.
- Boo von Malmborg. "Per Krafft". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- Henricus Petrus Baard; Frans Halsmuseum (1969). Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem (in Dutch). Johan Enschedé en Zonen.
- Detroit Institute of Arts (1981). The Golden Age of Naples: Art and Civilization Under the Bourbons, 1734-1805. Detroit Institute of Arts. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-89558-087-0.