1793 in art

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Events from the year 1793 in art.

## Events

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* August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings.
* Henry Fuseli begins to paints scenes from Paradise Lost.
* Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising.

## Works

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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat (1793)

* William Beechey
* Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy
* Sarah Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy
* William Blake – For Children: The Gates of Paradise (engravings)
* Mather Brown – Louis XVI Saying Farewell to His Family
* Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (marble statue, 1st version, commissioned 1787, enters Louvre 1824)
* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat
* Francisco Goya – Attack on a Coach
* Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – The Death of Brutus
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Siege of Valenciennes
* John Opie – Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
* François Marie Suzanne – terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin
* Utamaro – Three Beauties of the Present Day (nishiki-e color woodblock print; approximate date)

## Births

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* January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (died 1865)[1]
* February 13 – Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (died 1887)
* June 1 – Augustus Earle, English artist (died 1838)[2]
* June 3 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (died 1873)
* July 19 – Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (died 1856)[3]
* August 3 – Jacques-Jean Barre, French engraver and designer of French medals, the Great Seal of France, bank notes and postage stamps (died 1855)
* October 11 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (died 1865)[4]
* November 3 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (died 1875)
* November 5 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (died 1860)
* November 16 – Francis Danby, Irish landscape painter from the south of Ireland (died 1861)
* November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (died 1865)[5]
* November 25 – Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America (died 1878)
* December 3 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter (died 1867)
* December 7 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (died 1879)
* date unknown
* Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter (died 1844)
* Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, English portrait painter (died 1872)[6]
* Erin Corr, Irish engraver (died 1862)
* Angelus de Baets, Belgian painter of portraits and architectural subjects (died 1855)
* Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher and devout Confucian scholar (died 1867)
* Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subject painter (died 1861)
* Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort, French artist painting in oil and watercolours (died 1861)
* Václav Mánes, Czech painter (died 1858)
* Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1868)
* Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (died 1837)
* Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (died 1868)
* Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (died 1841)

Jacques-Louis David, Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine (16 October 1793)

## Deaths

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* January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (born 1712)[7]
* March 2 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born painter (born 1711)[8]
* May 15 \- Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to miniature painting (born 1739)
* May 29 – John Webber, English landscape artist (born 1751)
* July 5
* Alexander Roslin, Swedish portrait painter (born 1718)
* Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1710)
* September 9 – Peter Perez Burdett, English draughtsman (born c.1734)
* October 5 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement Illustrious Absolutism (born 1737)
* November – Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (born 1719)
* November 7 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (born 1724)[9]
* November 20 – Teodor Ilić Češljar, Serbian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo period of Vojvodina (born 1746)
* December 13 – Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (born 1726)
* date unknown
* Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1746)
* Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (born 1723)
* Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (born 1724)
* Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (born 1744)[10]
* Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (born 1746)
* Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (born 1720)[11]
* Dominic Serres "the Elder", French-born marine painter (born 1722)
* Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1723)

## References

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1. ^ Bruno Grimschitz (1961). The Old Vienna School of Painting. Wolfrum. p. 16.
2. ^ Australian National Gallery; Tim Bonyhady (1986). Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery. Australian National Gallery. p. 90-92. ISBN 978-0-642-88758-0.
3. ^ Thomas Doughty; Frank Henry Goodyear (1973). Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. 11.
4. ^ "Johan Erik Lindh". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). 16. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
5. ^ John Hannavy (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 461\. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
6. ^ South Kensington Museum (1888). A Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington. Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 43.
7. ^ Jane Martineau; Andrew Robison; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1994). The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 454\. ISBN 978-0-300-06186-4.
8. ^ Gunnar Jungmarker (1973). Carl Gustaf Pilo som tecknare: Av Gunnar Jungmarker (in Swedish). Nationalmuseum; Allmänna förl. p. 80\. ISBN 978-91-38-01567-4.
9. ^ Boo von Malmborg. "Per Krafft". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
10. ^ Henricus Petrus Baard; Frans Halsmuseum (1969). Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem (in Dutch). Johan Enschedé en Zonen.
11. ^ Detroit Institute of Arts (1981). The Golden Age of Naples: Art and Civilization Under the Bourbons, 1734-1805. Detroit Institute of Arts. p. 292\. ISBN 978-0-89558-087-0.

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