1783 in art
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Events from the year 1783 in art.
Events
- Royal Academy summer exhibition in London and places them at Schomberg House, his home.[1]
Works
- Marie-Gabrielle Capet – Self-portrait
- John Singleton Copley
- Thomas Gainsborough – Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Thomas Jones – A Storm – Prospero, Miranda and Caliban Spying the Shipwrecked Ferdinand
- Joseph Lange – Unfinished portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his brother-in-law
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Admiral Hood
- The Nativity (West window of chapel, Correggio, painted by Thomas Jervais)
- Alexander Roslin – The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes – At the Villa Farnèse – Two Poplars
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- Portrait of Marie Antoinette (the "muslin" portrait)
- Marie Antoinette with a Rose
- Thomas Whitcombe – The Battle of the Saintes, 12th April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris
Births
- January 2 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (died 1853)
- January 4 – Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter (died 1823)
- Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (died 1873)
- March 25 – Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (died 1855)
- April 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter (died 1844)
- April 29 – David Cox, English landscape painter (died 1859)
- May 29 – Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian-born British engraver (died 1855)
- June 19 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (died 1872)
- September 17 – Samuel Prout, English water-colour painter (died 1852)[2]
- October 4 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (died 1854)
- December 14 – Alexandre-François Caminade, French portraitist and a religion painter (died 1862)
- December 18 – Johan Niclas Byström, Swedish sculptor (died 1844)
- date unknown
- Maria Johanna Görtz, Swedish still life artist (died 1853)
- Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (died 1844)
- Joseon period (died 1837)
Deaths
- January 24 – George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (born 1706)[3]
- March 26 - Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (born 1713)
- Frederician Rococo (born 1718)
- April 14 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (born 1707)[4]
- May 26 – Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish portrait miniaturist artist (born 1713)
- July 8 – Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian fresco painter (born 1708)
- August 4 – Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman (born 1720)
- August 19 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German sculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions (born 1736)
- August 29 – William Wynne Ryland, English engraver (born 1738)
- November 19 – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels (born 1715)
- date unknown
- Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter (born 1702)
- Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1724)
- Jean-Baptiste Defernex, French sculptor especially of portrait busts (born 1729)
- Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (born 1709)
References
- ^ Fulcher, George William, Life of Thomas Gainsborough , London 1856
- ^ "Samuel Prout (1783-1852)". artuk.org. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Moser's entry at the UK National Portrait Gallery
- ^ *Roger Portalis & Henri Béraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Vol. 2, pt. 2 (Helman to Marais) (Paris D. Morgand et C. Fatout, 1880) pp. 564–592