1791 in art

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Events

January 6 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (d. 1873)
February 13 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter (d. 1830)
March 20 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter (d. 1863)
April 27 – Samuel F. B. Morse – American inventor and painter of portraits and historic scenes (d. 1872)
September 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, pioneer of the Romantic movement (d. 1824)
date unknown
- Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (d. 1849)
- Ōtagaki Rengetsu – Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, skilled potter and painter, and expert calligrapher (d. 1875)

January 4 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor (b. 1716)
June 5 – Giuseppe Ghedini, Italian painter and university professor of painting (b. 1708)
June 22 – Giuseppe Antonio Landi, Italian neoclassical architect and painter of quadratura (b. 1713)
June 30 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French painter of village scenes (b. 1714)
November 7 – Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (b. 1730)
November 25 – Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver (b. 1727)
date unknown
- Robert Carver – Irish painter, especially of theater scenery (b. 1730)
- Marie Jeanne Clemens, Danish engraver and painter, member of Danish Academy of Fine Arts (b. 1755)
- Gang Se-hwang, Korean politician, painter, calligrapher and art critic (b. 1713)