1808 in art
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Events in the year 1808 in Art.
Events
- May 2 and May 3 â In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808.
- May 2 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1808 opens at Somerset House in London
- April 5 â John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.[1]
- October 15 â The Salon of 1808 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.[2]
- The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.[3]
- Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
Works
- René Théodore Berthon â Napoleon Receiving the Senate Deputies in Berlin[4]
- Louis-Léopold Boilly â Departure of the Conscripts
- Antonio Canova â Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude)[5]
- Richard Cosway â Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
- François-Xavier Fabre â The Judgement of Paris
- François Gérard
- James Gillray â The Spanish Bullfight
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Lawrence â Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
- Thomas Phillips â Venus and Adonis
- Adolphe Roehn â The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit[10]
- J. M. W. Turner
Publications
- Johann Dominicus Fiorillo â Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste.
- Robert Blair â The Grave, with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including A Vision of the Last Judgment).
- Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson â Volume 1 of The Microcosm of London, illustrated in aquatint from watercolours produced jointly by Pugin & Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London.
Births
- February 5 â Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885)
- February 26 â Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)[17]
- March 6 â Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862)
- July 12 â Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter (died 1874)
- December 14 â Ãdouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter (died 1882)
- Date unknown â Nikola AleksiÄ, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)
Deaths
- February 10 â Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740)
- March 1 â Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738)[18]
- March 3 â Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733)
- April 10 â Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743)
- April 15 â Hubert Robert, French painter (born 1733)
- April 26 â Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728)
- June 1 â Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761)
- June 6 â Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737)[19]
- December 4 â Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
- December 18 â Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)[20]
- December 22 â Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)[21]
