1787 in art
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Events from the year 1787 in art.
Events
- 25 August â The Salon of 1787 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Works
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- William Beechey â Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind
- Antonio Canova â Tomb of Pope Clement XIV
- Jacques-Louis David â The Death of Socrates (completed)
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Francisco Goya
- Highwaymen Attacking a Coach
- The Snowstorm (Winter)
- The Swing
- William Hodges â The Ghauts at Benares
- Louise Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun â Marie Antoinette and her Children (completed)
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine â Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window
- Philip James de Loutherbourg â Snowdon from Capel Curig
- James Northcote â Jael and Sisera[1]
- John Opie â The Murder of Rizzio[2]
- George Romney â Mrs Jordan as Peggy
- Jean-Joseph Taillasson â Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia[3]
- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein â Goethe in the Campagna
- Benjamin West â The Institution of the Order of the Garter
Awards
- (unknown)
Births
- January 7 â Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (died 1831)
- February 3 â Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (died 1862)
- March 10 â William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (died 1849)
- April 9 â William Finden, English line engraver (died 1852)
- August 17 â Maxim Vorobiev, Russian Romantic landscape painter (died 1855)
- August 20 â Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (died 1843)
- September 11 â Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter (died 1845)
- September 18 â Johann David Passavant, German painter, curator and artist (died 1861)
- October 2 â Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter (died 1878)
- October 13 â William Brockedon, English painter (died 1854)
- November 18 â Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography (died 1851)
- November 22 â Copley Fielding, English watercolour landscape painter (died 1855)
- December 16 â François Joseph Heim, French painter (died 1865)
- date unknown
- Heinrich Adam, German painter (died 1862)
- Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (died 1869)
- Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (died 1870)
- Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1863)
- François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (died 1869)
- Xavier Sigalon, French Romantic painter (died 1837)
Deaths
- February 4 â Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (born 1708)
- March 17 â Anton August Beck, German engraver (born 1713)
- June 23 â Pierre L'Enfant, French painter (born 1704)
- July 25 â Arthur Devis â English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (born 1712)
- September 5 â John Brown, Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh (born 1749)
- November 10 â Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Italian painter and engraver (born 1734)
- December 12 â Jean Valade, French painter (born 1710)
- date unknown
- Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (born 1727)
- John Cheere, English sculptor (born 1709)
- Nicolas Desportes, French painter of hunting scenes (born 1718)
- Erik Westzynthius the Younger, Finnish painter (born 1743)
- Francesco Zugno, Italian Rococo painter (born c. 1708)
- probable - Thomas Engleheart, English sculptor and modeller in wax (date of birth unknown)