1806 in art
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Events in the year 1806 in art.
Events
- 18 January – The British Institution opens the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, as the "British Gallery",[1] alternating the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists.
- 5 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1806 opens at Somerset House in London
Works
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Card Sharp on the Boulevard
- 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)
- Portrait of Lord Westmoreland
- John Opie – Portrait of Robert Southey
- Henry Raeburn – Lord Newton (approximate date)
- Philipp Otto Runge – The Hülsenbeck Children
- Joseph Karl Stieler – Self-portrait
- J.M.W. Turner
- Benjamin West
- David Wilkie
Births
- 10 January – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
- 13 January – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)
- 25 January – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1870)
- 1 February – George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
- 22 February – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
- 8 March – Antonio María Esquivel, Spanish Romantic painter (died 1857)[2]
- 12 April – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
- 2 May – Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
- 4 June – Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
- 11 June – James Ballantine, Scottish painter and author (died 1877)
- 28 July – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
- 19 September – William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
- 24 September – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
- October (10 or 12) – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)
Deaths
- 6 January – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
- 22 February – James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)
- 17 March – Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)
- April – John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)
- 8 April – Robert Barker, itinerant portrait painter (born 1739)[3]
- 26 April – Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
- 5 June – Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)
- 3 July – Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)[4]
- 10 July – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
- 22 August – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)
- 23 August – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
- 9 October – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
- 10 October – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
- 22 October – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
- 31 October – Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
- date unknown
- Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)
- 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
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- ↑ Arte Español: Journal of the "Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte" [1] Estudio y catálogo de la obra de Esquivel, by Bernardino de Pantorba (1959)
- ↑ Template:Cite IrishBio
- ↑ Rodolfo Battistini, La Quadreria – Carlo Magini, La vita at Fondazione Carifano Template:In lang, accessed 3 May 2018