1788 in art
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[edit] Events
- Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts.
[edit] Works
[edit] Births
- December 30 - Edouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (d. 1875)
- Johan Christian Dahl - Norwegian landscape painter (d. 1857)
- John Watson Gordon - painter (d. 1864)
- Franz Pforr - painter (d. 1812)
- Felix Slade - founder of the Slade School of Art (d. 1868)
- Pierre Jean David - sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (d. 1856)
[edit] Deaths
- July 15 - Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (b. 1763)
- August 2 - Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait painter (b. 1727)
- December 30 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian Rococo painter, elected in 1763 to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts (b. 1702)
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour - French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels (b. 1704)
- Min Zhen - Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (b. 1730)
- Toriyama Sekien - scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore (b. 1712)
- Matthäus Günther - German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (b. 1705)
