1808 in art

Events

• May 2 and May 3 – In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808.
• April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.^[1]
• The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is founded.
• The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam.
• Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
• Publication of Johann Dominicus Fiorillo's Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste.
• Publication of an edition of Robert Blair's poem The Grave with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including A Vision of the Last Judgment).

Goya – Prison Interior. 42.9cm x 31.7cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Works

• François Joseph Bosio – Statue of Cupid with a bow (Hermitage Museum)
• Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude)
• Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
• François-Xavier Fabre – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
  • The Entombment of Atala
  • François-René de Chateaubriand
  • Hortense de Beauharnais
• Francisco Goya – Prison Interior
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Napoleon on the battlefield of Preussisch-Eylau
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • The Bather
  • Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
• Edouard Pingret – Portrait of Napoleon I of France

Births

• February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885)
• February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)
• March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862)
• Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)

Deaths

• February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740)
• March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738)
• March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733)
• April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743)
• April 15 – Hubert Robert, painter (born 1733)
• April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728)
• June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761)
• June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737)
• December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (born 1763)
• date unknown
  • Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)
  • Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)

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