1802 in art

List of years in Art

Events

• The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.

Works

• Antonio Canova – statue of Napoleon Bonaparte
• François Gerard – Madame Récamier
• John Constable – Dedham Vale, 1802

Births

• June 17 – Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, painter and astronomer (d. 1866)
• August 26 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, sculptor (d. 1848)
• December 25 – Richard Parkes Bonington, landscape painter (d. 1828)
• date unknown – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (d. 1870)
• date unknown – Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (d. 1871)

Deaths

• June 20 – Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter (b. 1734)
• September 30 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor (b. 1753)
• October 16 – Joseph Strutt, engraver and antiquary (b. 1775)
• October 24 – John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (b. 1748)
• November 9 – Thomas Girtin, painter and etcher (b. 1775)
• November 15 – George Romney, painter (b. 1734)
• December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, portrait painter (b. 1760)
• December 17 – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor (b. 1731)
• December 27 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (b. 1745)
• date unknown
  • Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (b. 1727)
  • Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (b. 1735)
  • Philip Jean, English miniaturist painter (b. 1755)