1788 in art

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Events

• Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts.

Works

• Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife
• Francisco Goya - The Meadow of San Isidro
• Francisco Goya - St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man

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)

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)