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Overview of the events of 1788 in art
List of years in art
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Events from the year
1788 in art
.
Events
Étienne Maurice Falconet
becomes director of the
Académie des beaux-arts
.
Works
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
by
Philip James de Loutherbourg
Thomas Barrett
–
Charlotte Medal
James Barry
–
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia
(1786–88)
Jacques-Louis David
–
Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife
Thomas Gainsborough
–
Musidora
Marguerite Gérard
–
First Steps
(approximate date)
Girodet
–
The Death of Tatius
Francisco Goya
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga
("Red Boy", 1787–88)
The Meadow of San Isidro
St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man
Anton Graff
–
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
Thomas Lawrence
–
Portrait of William Linley
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
–
Portrait of Hubert Robert
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
-
Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death
[
1
]
Philip James de Loutherbourg
–
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
Sir
Joshua Reynolds
The Age of Innocence
(probable date)
Lord Heathfield
Portrait of Maria Fitzherbert
Benjamin West
–
King Lear in the Storm
Johann Zoffany
–
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match
Births
February 5
–
Sarah Goodridge
, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died
1853
)
February 24
–
Johan Christian Dahl
,
Norwegian
landscape painter
(died
1857
)
February 29
–
Catharine Hermine Kølle
, Norwegian adventurer and painter (died
1859
)
March 12
–
Pierre Jean David
, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (died
1856
)
April 5
–
Franz Pforr
, painter (died
1812
)
April 18
–
Charles de Steuben
,
French
painter active during the
Napoleonic Era
(died
1856
)
April 20
–
Emma Körner
, German painter (died
1815
)
April 24
–
Ammi Phillips
, American painter (died
1865
)
June 18
-
Ernesta Legnani Bisi
, Italian painter and engraver (died
1859
)
September 8
–
William Collins
, English landscape and
genre
painter (died
1847
)
August 6
–
Felix Slade
, founder of the
Slade School of Art
(died
1868
)
November 4
–
Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux
, French sculptor and medal engraver (died
1881
)
November 28
–
Kikuchi Yōsai
–
Japanese
painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (died
1878
)
date unknown
Michele Bisi
,
Italian
engraver and painter (date of death
unknown
)
Albertus Jonas Brandt
, Dutch still-life painter (died
1821
)
Martin Cregan
, Irish portrait painter (died
1870
)
John Watson Gordon
, painter (died
1864
)
Michael Hanhart
, British lithographer and
chromolithographer
(died
1865
)
Mary Harrison
, English flower and fruit painter, and illustrator (died
1875
)
Emma Eleonora Kendrick
, British miniature painter (died
1871
)
Paolo Toschi
, Italian draughtsman and engraver (died
1854
)
William Edward West
, American portrait painter (died
1859
)
Deaths
February 13
–
Josef Jáchym Redelmayer
, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (born
1727
)
February 17
–
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
,
French
Rococo
portraitist
who worked primarily with
pastels
(born
1704
)
March 2
–
Solomon Gessner
,
Swiss
painter and
poet
(born
1730
)
May 29
–
Jacques Aliamet
, French engraver (born
1726
)
July 15
–
Jean Germain Drouais
, French historical painter (born
1763
)
August 2
–
Thomas Gainsborough
, English portrait painter (born
1727
)
September 27
– Sir
Robert Taylor
, stonemason, sculptor, and architect (born
1714
)
September 30
–
Matthäus Günther
, German painter and
artist
of the
Baroque
and
Rococo
era (born
1705
)
December 30
–
Francesco Zuccarelli
, Italian
Rococo
painter, elected in 1763 to the
Venetian Academy
of Fine Arts (born
1702
)
date unknown
Fabio Berardi
, Italian engraver (born
1728
)
Joseph Bergler the Elder
, Austrian sculptor (born
1718
)
Carlo Bonavia
, Italian
veduta
painter (date of birth
unknown
)
Gaspard Duché de Vancy
, French painter and drawer (born
1756
)
George Farington
, English artist (born
1752
)
Toriyama Sekien
, scholar and
ukiyo-e
artist of
Japanese folklore
(born
1712
)
François-Gaspard Teuné
, French
ébéniste
(cabinet-maker) (born
1726
)
Min Zhen
, Chinese painter and seal carver born in
Nanchang
in
Jiangxi
(born
1730
)
References
↑
"Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death"
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