1797 in art

Events from the year 1797 in art.

Events

 * Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans established in France.

Works

 * Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Temple in Ruins
 * François Gérard – Belisarius
 * Francisco Goya – Bernardo de Iriarte
 * Anton Graff – Elisa von der Recke
 * Henry Howard – Anne Flaxman (approximate date)
 * Henry Tresham – The Earl of Warwick's Vow Previous to The Battle of Towton

Births

 * January 19 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (died 1870)
 * April 5 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre art (died 1871)
 * May 29 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (died 1836)
 * June 13 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (died 1892)
 * July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (died 1849)
 * June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter (died 1867)
 * July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (died 1856)
 * August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (died 1890)
 * August 20 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (died 1871)
 * September 5 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1857)
 * September 13 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school (died 1830)
 * September 19 – Jan Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (died 1875)
 * September 25 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (died 1857)
 * October 9 – Henry Collen, English Royal miniature portrait painter (died 1879)
 * October 29 – Friedrich Loos, Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer (died 1890)
 * date unknown
 * Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (died 1865)
 * Tommaso Benedetti, English-born Austrian painter (died 1863)
 * Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (died 1869)
 * Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (died 1865)
 * Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (died 1858)
 * Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863)
 * Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (died 1860)
 * Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (died 1880)
 * probable
 * John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter (died 1838)
 * Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school (died 1861)

Deaths

 * February 12 – Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (born 1723)
 * March 6 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (born 1744)
 * March 30 – Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (born 1723)
 * April 4– Pierre-François Berruer, French sculptor (born 1733)
 * June 23 – Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes and vistas (born 1737)
 * July 18 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (born 1732)
 * August 18 – Josiah Spode, English potter (born 1733)
 * August 29 – Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (born 1734)
 * September 29 - George Raper, English nature artist (born 1769)
 * December 14 – John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (born 1752)
 * date unknown
 * Manuel Francisco Álvarez de la Peña, Spanish sculptor (born 1727)
 * Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter (born 1745)
 * Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (born 1721)
 * Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter (born 1754)
 * Thomas Kirk, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1765)