1789 in art
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Events from the year 1789 in art.
Events
- April 27 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1789 opens at Somerset House in London
- May 4 â The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, designed for John Boydell by George Dance the Younger, is opened in London.
- James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque".
- Sir Joshua Reynolds loses the sight of his left eye, which forces him into retirement from painting.
Works
- John Singleton Copley â The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
- Jacques-Louis David â The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson â Joseph Recognised by His Brothers
- Francisco Goya â Blind Man's Bluff (cartoon for tapestry)
- Thomas Lawrence
- Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun â Portrait of Madame Perregaux
- Joshua Reynolds
- Hubert Robert â The Bastille During the First Days of its Demolition
- John Trumbull â The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789
- François-André Vincent â Zeuxis Choosing the Most Beautiful Women from Croton as His Models
- Benjamin West
- The Burghers of Calais[1]
- George III Resuming Power
- Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross
Births
- March 7 â Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits (died 1851)
- April 29 â Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1863)
- June 30 â Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects (died 1863)
- July 4 â Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (died 1869)
- July 19 â John Martin, English painter and engraver (died 1854)
- July 31 â Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner (died 1862)
- September 7 â Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter (died 1862)
- November 12 â William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (died 1862)
- November 20 â John Partridge, British artist and portrait painter (died 1872)
- date unknown
- Jakob Alt, German landscape painter (died 1872)
- Jules Robert Auguste, French painter Impressionist movement (died 1850)
- Giovanni Battista Cassevari, Italian miniature portrait painter, (died 1876)
- Auguste Hüssener, German engraver and miniature painter (died 1877)
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish and Russian painter (died 1856)
- Hans Michelsen, Norwegian sculptor (died 1859)
Deaths
- January 4 â Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish gouache painter best known for his topographic prospects (born 1715)
- May 9 â Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (born 1707)
- May 15 â Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter, drawer and administrator (born 1714)
- June 12 â Jean-Ãtienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter (born 1702)
- August 22 â Johann Heinrich Tischbein, member of the Tischbein family of German painters (born 1722)
- December 3 â Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (born 1714)
- date unknown
- Kim Eung-hwan, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1742)
- Jeremiah Meyer, English miniaturist (born 1735)
- Nikola NeÅ¡koviÄ, Serbian religious painter of icons, frescos, and portraits (born 1740)
- Thomas Parkinson, British portrait painter (born 1744)
- Orazio Solimena, Italian painter (born 1690)