1803 in art

List of years in Art

Works

• Thomas Douglas Guest – Portrait of Joseph Wilton

Awards

The Prix de Rome is expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category.

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Albert Androt.

Births

• March 3 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (d. 1860)
• May 19 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (d. 1848)
• June 13 – Treffle Berthlaume, sculptor (d. 1884)
• July 24 – Alexander Jackson Davis, architect, illustrator (d. 1892)
• August 23 – Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter (d. 1874)
• September 13 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard ("J J Grandville"), caricaturist (d. 1847)
• September 28 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (d. 1884)
• November 25 – Sofia Ahlbom
• date unknown – Francis Grant, painter (d. 1878)

Deaths

• January 8 - Domenico Cunego, Italian printmaker (b. c.1725)
• April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, historical and portrait painter (b. 1749)
• April 29 – Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of water colours and sketches (b. 1742)
• June 14 – José Camarón y Bononat, Spanish painter, mainly active in Valencia (b. 1731)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Baldrighi, Italian painter (b. 1722)
  • Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter (b. 1755)
  • Joseph Wilton, sculptor (b. 1722)
  • Xi Gang, Chinese calligrapher and painter of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1746)