1807 in art

Events

• Napoleon Bonaparte purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.
• Completion of Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection of William Thomas Beckford.

Works

Caspar David Friedrich – The Cross in the Mountains

• William Blake – illustrations of Paradise Lost
• Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon
• Arthur William Devis – The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
• Caspar David Friedrich – The Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)
• Daniel Turner – Nelson's Funeral Procession on the Thames, 9 January 1806
• J. M. W. Turner – Sun Rising Through Vapour, Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish
• David Wilkie – Rent Day

Births

• February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, glass painter (died 1870)
• September 10 – Friedrich Gauermann, painter (died 1862)
• September 22 – Ulisse Cambi, Italian sculptor (died 1895)
• October 5 – Constant Dutilleux, French illustrator and engraver (died 1865)
• date unknown – Jean Achard, French painter (died 1884)

Deaths

• February 9 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (born 1743)
• March 8 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (born 1733)
• April 2 – Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (born 1746)
• April 6 – John Opie, historical and portrait painter (born 1761)
• April 28 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, landscape painter (born 1737)
• July 28 – Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (born 1760)
• September 18 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (born 1745)
• November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (born 1741)
• December 6 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (born 1737)
• date unknown
  • Eliphalet Chapin, furniture designer (born 1741)
  • Nathaniel Grogan, Irish painter from Cork (born 1740)