1793 in art

Events

• August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings.
• Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising.

Works

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, (1793)

• Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (marble statue, enters Louvre 1824)
• Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Siege of Valenciennes
• John Opie – Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
• François Marie Suzanne – terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin

Births

• January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (died 1865)
• February 13 – Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (died 1887)
• June 3 - Edmund Thomas Parris, English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (died 1873)
• July 19 – Thomas Doughty, landscape painter (died 1856)
• August 3 - Jacques-Jean Barre, French engraver and designer of French medals, the Great Seal of France, bank notes and postage stamps (died 1855)
• October 11 - Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and a former decorative painter who moved to Finland (died 1865)
• November 3 - Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (died 1875)
• November 16 – Francis Danby, Irish landscape painter from the south of Ireland (died 1861)
• November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, painter and art collector (died 1865)
• November 25 - Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America (died 1878)
• December 3 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter (died 1867)
• December 7 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (died 1879)
• date unknown
  • Erin Corr, Irish engraver (died 1862)
  • Angelus de Baets, Belgian painter of portraits and architectural subjects (died 1855)
  • Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher, and devout Confucian scholar (died 1867)
  • Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subjects painter (died 1861)
  • Václav Mánes, Czech painter (died 1858)
  • Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (died 1837)
  • Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (died 1868)
  • Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (died 1841)

Jacques-Louis David, Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine (16 October 1793)

Deaths

• January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (born 1712)
• March 2 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born painter (born 1711)
• May 29 - John Webber, English landscape artist (born 1751)
• July 5
  • Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1710)
  • Alexander Roslin, Swedish portrait painter (born 1718)
• September 9 - Peter Perez Burdett, English draughtsman (born c.1734)
• October 5 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement Illustrious Absolutism (born 1737)
• November - Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (born 1719)
• November 20 - Teodor Ilić Češljar, Serbian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo period of Vojvodina (born 1746)
• December 13 - Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (born 1726)
• date unknown
  • Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1746)
  • Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (born 1723)
  • Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (born 1736)
  • Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (born 1744)
  • Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (born 1746)
  • Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (born 1720)
  • Dominic Serres "the Elder", French-born marine painter (born 1722)
  • Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1723)