1806 in art
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Events in the year 1806 in art.
Events
- 18 January â The British Institution opens the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, as the "British Gallery",[1] alternating the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists.
- 5 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1806 opens at Somerset House in London.[2]
Works
- Antonio Canova â Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (bronze nude)
- Marguerite Gérard â The Clemency of Napoleon[3]
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson â Charles-Marie Bonaparte
- John Hoppner
- Jean-Antoine Houdon â Portrait bust of Napoleon
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Lawrence â Portrait of Lord Westmoreland[5]
- Henry Raeburn â Lord Newton (approximate date)
- Philipp Otto Runge â The Hülsenbeck Children
- Joseph Karl Stieler â Self-portrait
- Benjamin West
- David Wilkie
Births
- 10 January â Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
- 13 January â Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)[6]
- 25 January â Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1882)[7]
- 1 February â George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
- 22 February â Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
- 8 March â Antonio MarÃa Esquivel, Spanish Romantic painter (died 1857)[8]
- 12 April â Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
- 2 May â Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
- 4 June â Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
- 11 June â James Ballantine, Scottish painter and author (died 1877)
- 28 July â Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
- 19 September â William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
- 24 September â Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
- October (10 or 12) â David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)
Deaths
- 6 January â Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
- 22 February â James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)
- 17 March â Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)
- April â John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)
- 8 April â Robert Barker, itinerant portrait painter (born 1739)[9]
- 26 April â Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
- 5 June â Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)[10]
- 3 July â Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)[11]
- 10 July â George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
- 22 August â Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)[12]
- 23 August â Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
- 9 October â Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
- 10 October â Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
- 22 October â Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
- 31 October â Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
- date unknown
- Ezekiel Abraham Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)[13]
- Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer (born 1748/1749) (drowned)
- Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1741)
- probable â Danwon, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1745)
