1790 in art
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Events from the year 1790 in art.
Events
- AprilâMay â Josiah Wedgwood shows off his first reproductions of the Portland Vase, in jasperware.
- 28 April â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1790 opens at Somerset House and is noted for the emergence of the young portrait painter Thomas Lawrence
Works
- William Blake â The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Louis-Léopold Boilly
- Mather Brown
- Giuseppe Cades â The Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus served by the Angels
- Henri-Pierre Danloux â Le supplice d'une vestale
- Johann Heinrich Fussli â Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent
- Gaetano Gandolfi â Joseph's Dream
- Francisco de Goya â El Afilador and Sagrada Familia
- Angelica Kauffman â Venus überredet Helena Paris zu erhören
- Thomas Lawrence â Homer Reciting his Poems
- Philip James de Loutherbourg â Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
- Joshua Reynolds â Portrait of Lord Moira
- Henry Singleton â The Storming of the Bastille
- George Stubbs â The Lincolnshire Ox[1]
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo â Pulcinella und Saltimbanchi
- John Trumbull â Washington at Verplanck's Point
- J.M.W. Turner â Lambeth Palace
- Joseph Wright of Derby
Births
- January 1 â George Petrie, Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (died 1866)
- January 25 â Moritz Michael Daffinger, Austrian miniature painter and sculptor (died 1849)
- January 30 â Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm, Swedish diplomat who made paintings of the countries in which he served (died 1858)
- February 19 â Anton Schimser, Polish sculptor of Austrian origin (died 1838)
- March â Kapiton Zelentsov, Russian painter notable for his book illustrations (died 1845)
- March 14 â Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (died 1863)
- March 28 â William Henry Hunt, English water-color painter (died 1864)
- May 22 - Bianca Milesi, Italian writer, painter, and patriot (died 1849)
- May 23 - James Pradier, Swiss-born French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1852)
- June 19 â John Gibson, Welsh-born sculptor (died 1866)
- July 6 â Giuseppe Tominz, Italian-Slovenian portrait painter (died 1866)
- July 18 â John Frazee, first American born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (died 1852)
- September 24 â Robert Trewick Bone, English painter of sacred, classical and genre scenes (died 1840)
- date unknown
- Willis Buell, American politician and portrait painter (died 1851)
- Keisai Eisen, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (died 1848)
- Henri van der Haert, Belgian portrait painter, sculptor, illustrator and engraver (died 1846)
- PaweÅ MaliÅski, Czech-born sculptor and mason who lived and worked in Poland (died 1853)
- Edward Villiers Rippingille, English painter (died 1859)
- Luigi Rossini, Italian artist known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture (died 1857)
Deaths
- February 20 â Erik Pauelsen, Danish landscape painter (born 1749)
- March 8 â Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter (born 1700)
- March 28 â François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures (born 1708)
- April 29 â Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic (born 1715)
- August â Agostino Carlini, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1718)
- September 24 â John Keyse Sherwin, English engraver and painter (born 1751)
- date unknown:
- Isoda Koryusai, Japanese printmaker and painter (born 1735)
- Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (born 1730)