1797 in art

Events

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Works

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Births

*July 17 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
* Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (d. 1890)
* Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (d. 1865)
* Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (d. 1858)
* Charles C. Ingham - Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (d. 1863)
* John O'Keeffe - Irish portrait and figure painter (d. 1838)
* January Suchodolski - Polish painter and Army officer (d. 1875)
* Joseph Stannard, painter of the Norwich school (d. 1830)
* Sophie Fremiet - French painter (d. 1867)
* Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school (d. 1861)
* Friedrich Loos - Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer (d. 1890)
* Henry Collen - English Royal miniature portrait painter (d. 1879)

Deaths

* Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor (b. 1727)
* George Raper, nature artist (b. 1769)
* Thomas Kirk, British painter (b. 1765)
* Joseph Wright, British painter (b. 1734)
* William Hodges, English landscape painter (b. 1744)
* Charles Joseph Flipart - French painter and engraver (b. 1721)
* John Robert Cozens - English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (b. 1752)
* Antonio Diziani - Italian painter of veduta, landscapes, and vistas (b. 1737)