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1789 in art
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June 21, 2025
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Events
Works
Births
Deaths
Overview of the events of 1789 in art
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Events from the year
1789 in art
.
Events
May 4
– The
Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
, designed for
John Boydell
by
George Dance the Younger
, is opened in London.
James Stuart
and
Nicholas Revett
publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with
William Pars
's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque".
Sir
Joshua Reynolds
loses the sight of his left eye, which forces him into retirement from painting.
Works
John Trumbull
–
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789
Thomas Lawrence
–
Portrait of Queen Charlotte
John Singleton Copley
–
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
Jacques-Louis David
–
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
–
Joseph Recognised by His Brothers
Francisco Goya
–
Blind Man's Bluff
(
cartoon for tapestry
)
Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of Queen Charlotte
William Linley
Joshua Reynolds
The Braddyll Family
Cupid and Psyche
Puck
(
Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
)
Hubert Robert
–
The Bastille During the First Days of its Demolition
John Trumbull
–
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789
François-André Vincent
–
Zeuxis Choosing the Most Beautiful Women from Croton as His Models
Benjamin West
George III Resuming Power
Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross
Births
March 7
–
Michel Martin Drolling
, French painter of history and portraits (died
1851
)
April 29
–
Karl Ludwig Frommel
,
German
landscape painter
and engraver (died
1863
)
June 30
–
Horace Vernet
, French
painter
of battles, portraits, and
Orientalist
Arab
subjects (died
1863
)
July 4
–
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
, German painter (died
1869
)
July 19
–
John Martin
, English painter and engraver (died
1854
)
July 31
–
Jean-Pierre Montagny
, French medallist and coiner (died
1862
)
September 7
–
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
, German Romantic painter (died
1862
)
November 12
–
William Turner
of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist (died 1862)
November 20
–
John Partridge
, British artist and portrait painter (died
1872
)
date unknown
Jakob Alt
, German landscape painter (died
1872
)
Jules Robert Auguste
, French painter
Impressionist
movement (died
1850
)
Giovanni Battista Cassevari
, Italian miniature portrait painter, (died
1876
)
Auguste Hüssener
, German engraver and miniature painter (died
1877
)
Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten
, Swedish and Russian painter (died
1856
)
Hans Michelsen
, Norwegian sculptor (died
1859
)
Deaths
January 4
–
Johan Jacob Bruun
, Danish
gouache
painter best known for his topographic prospects (born
1715
)
May 9
–
Giuseppe Bonito
,
Neapolitan
painter of the
Rococo
period (born
1707
)
May 15
–
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
, French painter, drawer and administrator (born
1714
)
June 12
–
Jean-Étienne Liotard
,
Swiss-French
painter (born
1702
)
August 22
–
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
, member of the
Tischbein family
of
German
painters (born
1722
)
December 3
–
Claude Joseph Vernet
,
French
painter (born
1714
)
date unknown
Kim Eung-hwan
,
Korean
painter of the late
Joseon period
(born
1742
)
Jeremiah Meyer
, English miniaturist (born
1735
)
Nikola Nešković
, Serbian religious painter of icons, frescos, and portraits (born
1740
)
Thomas Parkinson
, British portrait painter (born
1744
)
Orazio Solimena
, Italian painter (born
1690
)
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