1783 in art
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[edit] Works
Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1783, (the famous "muslin" portrait).
- Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – Portrait of Marie Antoinette
[edit] Births
- January 2 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (d. 1853)
- February 10 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (d. 1873)
- March 25 – Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (d. 1855)
- April 29 – David Cox, English landscape painter (d. 1859)
- May 29 – Benedetto Pistrucci, engraver (d. 1855)
- June 19 – Thomas Sully, portrait painter (d. 1872)
- September 17 – Samuel Prout, English water-colour painter (d. 1852)
- December 14 – Alexandre-François Caminade – French portraitist and a religion painter (d. 1862)
- date unknown
- Andrew Geddes, British painter (d. 1844)
- Maria Johanna Görtz – Swedish still life artist (d. 1853)
- Yi Jaegwan – Korean genre works painter in the late Joseon period (d. 1837)
[edit] Deaths
- August 19 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German sculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions (b. 1736)
- August 29 – William Wynne Ryland, English engraver (b. 1738)
- November 19 – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels (b. 1715)
- date unknown
- Anna Maria Hilfeling – Swedish portrait miniaturist artist (b. 1713)
- Johann Melchior Kambly, Swiss sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo (b. 1718)
- George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (b. 1706)
- Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (b. 1709)
- Gaetano Vettorali – Italian veduta painter (b. 1701)
- Johann Jakob Zeiller – Austrian fresco painter (b. 1708)