1786 in art
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Events from the year 1786 in art.
Events
- November â Boydell Shakespeare Gallery inaugurated in London.
- Francisco Goya is appointed court painter to King Charles III of Spain.
Works
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- Mather Brown
- Portrait of Charles Bulfinch
- Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
- Jean Germain Drouais â Marius at Minturnae[1]
- Thomas Gainsborough â Lavinia (The Milk Maid)
- Anne-Louis Girodet â Coriolanus Taking Leave of His Family
- Ozias Humphry â Portrait of Hyder Beg Khan
- James Northcote â The Murder of the Princes in the Tower
- Louise Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- Jean-Laurent Mosnier â Self-portrait
- Nagasawa Rosetsu
- Joshua Reynolds
- Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
- Dr. John Hunter seated in his museum
- John Trumbull
- Benjamin West â Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag
- Francis Wheatley â The Sailor's Return[2]
- Johann Zoffany â Colonel Antoine Polier, Claud Martin and John Wombwell with the Artist
Births
- January 26 â Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer (suicide 1846)
- April 1 â William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes (died 1863)
- April 16 â Albrecht Adam, painter (died 1862)[3]
- June 3 â Kim Jeong-hui, calligrapher, epigraphist, and scholar of Korea's later Joseon period (died 1856)
- July 5 â Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman (died 1821)[4]
- July 9 â Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (died 1822)
- August 8 â Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1854)[5]
- August 28 â Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer (died 1844)
- September 28 â Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter (died 1847)[6]
- October 10 â François-Ãdouard Picot, French historic painter (died 1868)
- November 23 â FrantiÅ¡ek TkadlÃk, Czech painter (died 1840)
- date unknown
- Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome (died 1864)
- Julien-Honoré-Germain d'Aubuisson, French portrait and miniature painter (died 1860)
- Georgije BakaloviÄ, Serbian painter (died 1843)
- Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen, French painter (died 1824)
- Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1850)
- William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist (died 1847)
- John Fischer, German portrait, miniature, and landscape painter (died 1875)
- James Frothingham, American painter (died 1864)
- Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints (died 1865)
- Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection (died 1849)
- probable
- John Hayes, British portrait-painter (died 1866)
Deaths
- January 8 â Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (born 1730)
- January 12 â Claude-Henri Watelet, French fermier-général, amateur painter and writer on the arts (born 1718)
- February 6 â Samuel Wale, English historical painter and book illustrator (born unknown)
- February 17 â Thomas Beckwith, English painter, genealogist and antiquary (born 1731)
- March 6 â Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV of France (born 1721)
- March 18 â Jacob Bonneau, Anglo-French painter (date of birth unknown)
- April 12 â Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter (born 1746)
- April 23 â Alexander Cozens, British landscape-painter in water-colours and teacher of painting (born 1717)
- May 4 â Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter (born 1743)
- June 21 â George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer (born 1727?)
- July 14 â John Collier, English caricaturist and satirist (born 1708)
- October 17 â Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (born 1723)
- October 30 â William Duesbury, British enameller and entrepreneur (born 1725)
- date unknown
- Andrea-Salvatore Aglio, Italian sculptor and painter on marble (born 1736)
- Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (born 1723)
- Tilly Kettle, portrait painter (born 1735)
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