1799 in art

List of years in Art

Events

Works

*Jacques-Louis David - "The Intervention of the Sabine Women"
*Anne-Louis Girodet - "Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé"
*Francisco Goya - "Los Caprichos"
*J. M. W. Turner - "Norham Castle"

Births

* January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss caricaturist (d. 1846)
* February 27 - Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect (d. 1854)
* Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast (d. 1870)
* Edward Calvert - English printmaker and painter (d. 1883)
* August Kopisch - German poet and painter (d. 1853)
* Eduard Magnus - German painter (d. 1872)
* Karl Briullov - Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism (d. 1852)

Deaths

*August 4 - John Bacon, British sculptor (b. 1740)
* Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (b. 1739)
* Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (b. 1717)
* James Tassie, Scottish engraver (b. 1735)
* Luo Pin, Chinese Qing dynasty painter, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (b. 1733)
* Luis Paret y Alcázar - Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (b. 1747)
* Giuseppe Cades - Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (b. 1750)
* Johann Georg Weikert - Austrian portrait painter (d. 1743/1745)
* Bartolomeo Cavaceppi - Italian sculptor who worked in Rome (b. 1716)