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Overview of the events of 1788 in art
Overview of the events of 1788 in art
Events from the year 1788 in art.
Events
Works
Births
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February 5 –
Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died
1853)
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February 24 –
Johan Christian Dahl,
Norwegian
landscape painter (died
1857)
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February 29 –
Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (died
1859)
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March 12 –
Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (died
1856)
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April 5 –
Franz Pforr, painter (died
1812)
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April 18 –
Charles de Steuben,
French painter active during the
Napoleonic Era (died
1856)
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April 20 –
Emma Körner, German painter (died
1815)
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April 24 –
Ammi Phillips, American painter (died
1865)
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June 18 -
Ernesta Legnani Bisi, Italian painter and engraver (died
1859)
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September 8 –
William Collins, English landscape and
genre painter (died
1847)
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August 6 –
Felix Slade, founder of the
Slade School of Art (died
1868)
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November 4 –
Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux, French sculptor and medal engraver (died
1881)
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November 28 –
Kikuchi Yōsai –
Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (died
1878)
- date unknown
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Michele Bisi,
Italian engraver and painter (date of death unknown)
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Albertus Jonas Brandt, Dutch still-life painter (died
1821)
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Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter (died
1870)
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John Watson Gordon, painter (died
1864)
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Michael Hanhart, British lithographer and
chromolithographer (died
1865)
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Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter, and illustrator (died
1875)
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Emma Eleonora Kendrick, British miniature painter (died
1871)
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Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (died
1854)
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William Edward West, American portrait painter (died
1859)
Deaths
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February 13 –
Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (born
1727)
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February 17 –
Maurice Quentin de La Tour,
French
Rococo
portraitist who worked primarily with
pastels (born
1704)
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March 2 –
Solomon Gessner,
Swiss painter and
poet (born
1730)
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May 29 –
Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (born
1726)
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July 15 –
Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (born
1763)
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August 2 –
Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait painter (born
1727)
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September 27 – Sir
Robert Taylor, stonemason, sculptor, and architect (born
1714)
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September 30 –
Matthäus Günther, German painter and
artist of the
Baroque and
Rococo era (born
1705)
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December 30 –
Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian
Rococo painter, elected in 1763 to the
Venetian Academy of Fine Arts (born
1702)
- date unknown
References