1788 in art
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[edit] Events
- Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts.
[edit] Works
- Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife
- Francisco Goya
- The Meadow of San Isidro
- St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- The Age of Innocence (probable date)
- Lord Heathfield
[edit] Births
- February 24 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (d. 1857)
- March 12 – Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (d. 1856)
- April 5 – Franz Pforr, painter (d. 1812)
- April 18 – Charles de Steuben, French painter active during the Napoleonic Era (d. 1856)
- August 6 – Felix Slade, founder of the Slade School of Art (d. 1868)
- December 30 – Edouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (d. 1875)
- date unknown
- Michele Bisi, Italian engraver and painter (d. unknown)
- John Watson Gordon, painter (d. 1864)
- Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (d. 1859)
- Ammi Phillips, American painter (d. 1865)
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels (b. 1704)
- March 2 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (b. 1730)
- July 15 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (b. 1763)
- August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait painter (b. 1727)
- September 30 – Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (b. 1705)
- December 30 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian Rococo painter, elected in 1763 to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts (b. 1702)
- date unknown
- Carlo Bonavia – Italian veduta painter (b. unknown)
- Toriyama Sekien,- scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore (b. 1712)
- Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (b. 1730)