1796 in art

Events from the year 1796 in art.

Events

 * Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia.
 * Ann Jemima Provis and her father Thomas Provis perpetrated the Venetian secret scandal where they falsely claimed to have found a document describing Renaissance-era painting methods. A number of prominent artists were fooled, most notably Benjamin West.

Works

 * Henry Fuseli – The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches
 * Anton Graff – George Leopold Gogel 
 * Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole
 * Hugh Douglas Hamilton – Lord Edward Fitzgerald
 * Thomas Lawrence
 * Portrait of Lord Hawkesbury
 * The Children of John Julius Angerstein
 * Henry Raeburn – Rev. Alexander Carlyle
 * Edward Savage – The Washington Family
 * Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
 * J. M. W. Turner – Fishermen at Sea (his first oil painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy)
 * Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt

Births

 * February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer (died 1877)
 * February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (died 1856)
 * May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (died 1852)
 * May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver (died 1882)
 * June 27 (bapt.) – George Vincent, English landscape painter of the Norwich School (died c. 1832)
 * June 30 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (died 1849)
 * July 2 – Michael Thonet, German-born furniture designer (died 1871)
 * July 3 – Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (died 1863)
 * July 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (died 1875)
 * July 26 – George Catlin, American painter specializing in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (died 1872)
 * August 21 – Asher Brown Durand, American painter of the Hudson River School (died 1886)
 * August 30 – Julien-Léopold Boilly, French draughtsman and watercolorist (died 1874)
 * September 4 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1842)
 * September 5 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1866)
 * September 24 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875)
 * October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (died 1878)
 * October 19 – Carl Wagner, German romantic landscape painter (died 1867)
 * October 24 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864)
 * October 30 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1880)
 * November 4 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (died 1865)
 * date unknown
 * Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (died 1842)
 * Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman (died 1829)
 * Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1855)
 * Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (died 1822)
 * Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (died 1877)
 * probable – John Ternouth, English sculptor (died 1848)

Deaths

 * March 9 – Saverio Gandini, Italian painter (born 1729)
 * March 29 – Johan Philip Korn, Swedish painter (born 1728)
 * April 2 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist painter (born 1735)
 * August 6 – David Allan, Scottish painter of historical subjects (born 1744)
 * August 8 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (born 1724)
 * September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (born 1733)
 * November 2 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (born 1745)
 * November 12 – Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter (born 1731)
 * December 29 – Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (born 1706)
 * date unknown
 * John Frederick Miller, English illustrator (born 1759)
 * Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter (born 1756)
 * probable – Francesco Battaglioli, Italian painter of veduta and capriccios (born 1722)