1796 in art

Events

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Works

Births

* February 3 - Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer (d. 1877)
* July 2 - Michael Thonet, furniture designer (d. 1871)
* July 17 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
* August 21 - Asher Brown Durand, painter of the Hudson River School (d. 1886)
* October 24 - David Roberts, Scottish painter (d. 1864)
* Antoine-Louis Barye - French sculptor (d. 1875)
* Marcin Zaleski - Polish painter (d. 1877)
* Asher Brown Durand, painter of the Hudson River School (d. 1886)
* George Catlin - American painter specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (d. 1872)
* John Neagle - American painter of portraits (d. 1865)
* Maria Martin - American watercolor painter (d. 1863)
* Peter Fendi - Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (d. 1842)
* William Miller - Quaker line engraver from Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1882)
* Alexander Clarot - Austrian painter (d. 1842)
* Joseph Bonomi the Younger - English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (d. 1878)
* Etienne-Jules Ramey - French sculptor and teacher (d. 1852)
* John Ternouth - English sculptor (d. 1848)

Deaths

*August 6 - David Allan, painter of historical subjects (b. 1744)
* John Frederick Miller, illustrator (b. 1759)
* Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (b. 1724)
* Ulrika Pasch - Swedish woman miniaturist painter (b. 1735)
* Francesco Battaglioli - Italian painter of veduta and cappriccios (b. 1722)