1802 in art
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Events in the year 1802 in Art.
Events
- May 3 â Royal Academy Exhibition of 1802 opens at Somerset House in London
- September 2 â The Salon of 1802 opens at the Louvre in Paris. Due to the Treaty of Amiens, British visitors are able to visit the exhibition for the first time in a decade
- The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.
- Antonio Canova models the bust of Napoleon later used for his statue Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker.
- Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.
Works
- John Constable â Dedham Vale
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- François Fleury-Richard â Valentine of Milan Mourning Her Husband the Duke of Orléans
- François Gérard â Madame Récamier
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson â Apotheosis of French Heroes Who Died for the Fatherland during the War of Liberation
- Christian Gottlieb Schick â Portrait of Wilhelmine Cotta (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
- Manuel Tolsá â Equestrian statue of Charles IV (Mexico City)
- J.M.W. Turner
- John Trumbull â Self-Portrait (Yale University Art Gallery)
- Utamaro â Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (print series)
- Rafail's Cross (woodcarving, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria)
Births
- March 7 â Edwin Landseer, English painter and sculptor (died 1873)
- May 20 â David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
- June 17 â Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
- August 26 â Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
- December 25 â Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter (died 1828)
- Undated
- Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (died 1871)
- Henry Room, English portrait painter (died 1850)
Deaths
- April 27 â Josef KramolÃn, Czech fresco painter (born 1730)
- June 20 â Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter (born 1734)
- September 12 â Philip Jean, Jersey-born miniaturist painter (born 1755)
- September 30 â Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor (born 1753)
- October 16 â Joseph Strutt, English engraver and antiquary (born 1749)
- October 24 â John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (born 1748)
- November 9 â Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (born 1775)
- November 15 â George Romney, English painter (born 1734)
- December 5 â Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (born 1760)
- December 17 â Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish sculptor (born 1731)
- December 27 â Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (born 1745)
- date unknown
- Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (born 1727)
- James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (born 1730)
- Giuseppe Canale, Italian painter and engraver (born 1725)
- Ãtienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (born 1735)