Events in the year 1807 in art.
Events Napoleon Bonaparte purchases the Borghese art collection, including a 2nd century bust, the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris, where in 1808 it is placed at the Louvre. William Thomas Beckford moves into Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection, even though construction has not finished.
Works
William Blake – illustrations of Paradise Lost Louis-Léopold Boilly A Game of Billiards The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grande Armée Augustus Wall Callcott – Market Dayhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-market-day-103815 John Constable – Bow Fell, Cumberland Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon Arthur William Devis – The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 Caspar David Friedrich Cairn in Snow Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) Angelica Kauffman – Portrait of Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of William Pitt Thomas Phillips – Portrait of William Blake Nicholas Pocock – Nelson's Flagships at Anchor Daniel Turner – Nelson's Funeral Procession on the Thames, 9 January 1806 J. M. W. Turner A Country Blacksmith The Junction of the Thames and the Medway Linlithgow Palace Newark Abbey Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour John Vanderlyn – Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage Hendrik Voogd – Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines David Wilkie – Rent Day
Births February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (died 1870) September 10 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (died 1862) September 22 – Ulisse Cambi, Italian sculptor (died 1895) October 5 – Constant Dutilleux, French illustrator and engraver (died 1865) date unknown – Jean Achard, French painter (died 1884)
Deaths February 9 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (born 1743) March 8 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (born 1733) April 2 – Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (born 1746) April 6 – John Opie, English historical and portrait painter (born 1761) April 28 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, German-born landscape painter (born 1737) July 28 – Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (born 1760) September 18 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (born 1745) November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (born 1741) December 6 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (born 1737) date unknown Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer (born 1741) Nathaniel Grogan, Irish painter from Cork (born 1740)
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