1801 in art

List of years in art       (table)
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Works

Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos
• Francisco Goya – Charles IV of Spain and His Family
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night
• Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing

Births

• January 26 – John Quidor, painter (d. 1881)
• February 1 – Thomas Cole, painter (d. 1848)
• April 30 – André Giroux, painter and photographer (d. 1879)
• July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter (d. 1875)
• September 4 – Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay, painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (d. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (d. 1860)
  • Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (d. 1850)
  • Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (d. 1876)
  • Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (d. 1859)
• probable (b. 1801/1804) – Paul Gavarni, caricaturist (d. 1866)

Deaths

• February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, painter (b. 1726)
• March 3 - Michael Angelo Rooker, oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (b. 1746)
• June 28 – Francis Wheatley, painter and engraver (b. 1747)
• August 16 – Ralph Earl, historical and portrait painter (b. 1751)
• June 28
  • Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter (b. 1718)
  • Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter (b. 1747)
• November 14 - Sigmund Freudenberger, painter (b. 1745)
• date unknown – William Hamilton, English painter (b. 1751)