1788 in art

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts.

[edit] Works

[edit] Births

• December 30 - Edouard Pingret, painter and lithographer (d. 1875)

[edit] Deaths

• July 15 - Jean Germain Drouais, painter (b. 1788)
• August 2 - Thomas Gainsborough, portrait painter (b. 1788)
• date unknown - Francesco Zuccarelli, painter (b. 1788)