1806 in art
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Events in the year 1806 in art.
Events
- 18 January – The British Institution opens the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, as the "British Gallery",[1] alternating the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists.
- 5 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1806 opens at Somerset House in London.[2]
Works
- Antonio Canova – Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (bronze nude)
- John Constable – Portrait of Abram Constable[3]
- Marguerite Gérard – The Clemency of Napoleon[4]
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Charles-Marie Bonaparte
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Napoleon[5]
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Westmoreland[6]
- Marie-Françoise-Constance Mayer – The Sleep of Venus and Cupid[7]
- Henry Raeburn – Lord Newton (approximate date)
- Philipp Otto Runge – The Hülsenbeck Children
- Joseph Karl Stieler – Self-portrait
- Benjamin West
- The Death of Nelson
- The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney[8]
- Portrait of Robert Fulton
- Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles (second version)
- David Wilkie
Births
- 10 January – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
- 13 January – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)[9]
- 25 January – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1882)[10]
- 1 February – George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
- 22 February – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
- 8 March – Antonio María Esquivel, Spanish Romantic painter (died 1857)[11]
- 12 April – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
- 2 May – Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
- 4 June – Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
- 11 June – James Ballantine, Scottish painter and author (died 1877)
- 28 July – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
- 19 September – William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
- 24 September – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
- October (10 or 12) – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)
Deaths
- 6 January – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)[12]
- 22 February – James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest Romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)[13]
- 17 March – Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)[14]
- 8 April – Robert Barker, itinerant portrait painter (born 1739)[15]
- 26 April – Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
- 20 April – John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)[16]
- 5 June – Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)[17]
- 3 July – Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)[18]
- 10 July – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
- 22 August – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)[19]
- 23 August – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
- 9 October – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
- 10 October – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
- 22 October – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
- 31 October – Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
- date unknown
- Ezekiel Abraham Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)[20]
- Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer (born 1748/1749) (drowned)
- Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1741)
- probable – Danwon, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1745)
References
- ↑ Smith, Thomas (1860). Recollections of the British Institution, for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom. London: Simpkin & Marshall and Edward Stanford. pp. 1–12.
British Institution Benjamin West.
- ↑ "1806 The Indifference of Sculptors". Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: a Chronicle. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/abram-constable-the-artists-brother-11963
- ↑ "The Clemency of Napoleon I: Napoleon and the Princess of Hatzfeld". Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ↑ "Bust of Napoleon". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
- ↑ Javier Costa Clavell (1977). Prado Museum: Foreign Painting. Escudo de Oro. pp. 124–5.
- ↑ "The Sleep of Venus and Cupid". Art UK. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
- ↑ https://woodmeremuseum.org/collection/the-fatal-wounding-of-sir-philip-sidney
- ↑ "Eugen Napoleon Neureuther". Nymphenburg.com. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ↑ Monkhouse, William (1885–1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ Arte Español: Journal of the "Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte" Estudio y catálogo de la obra de Esquivel, by Bernardino de Pantorba (1959)
- ↑ "Riesener timeline". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ "Rienk Jelgerhuis". Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 9 (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 July 2026.
- ↑ Webb, Alfred (1878). . A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son.
- ↑ Jeffares, Neil. "Russell, John" (PDF). Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. Neil Jeffares. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Doyen, Gabriel François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 461.
- ↑ Rodolfo Battistini, La Quadreria – Carlo Magini, La vita Archived 24 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at Fondazione Carifano (in Italian), accessed 3 May 2018
- ↑ Rosenberg, Pierre (1 January 1988). Fragonard. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-516-3.
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