1801 in art

Events in the year 1801 in Art.

Works

 * Fyodor Alekseyev – Red Square in Moscow
 * Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos
 * Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon Crossing the Alps (first version)
 * John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford
 * François Gérard – Portrait of Empress Josephine
 * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté) (approx. date)
 * Francisco Goya
 * Charles IV of Spain and His Family
 * Portrait of Manuel Godoy
 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Caroline, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte
 * Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night
 * Constance Mayer - Self-Portrait of the Artist with her Father
 * Rembrandt Peale – Rubens Peale with a Geranium
 * J. M. W. Turner – Dutch Boats in a Gale (the Bridgewater Sea Piece)
 * Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing
 * Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, England

Births

 * January 4 – James Giles, Scottish landscape painter (died 1870)
 * January 26 – John Quidor, American painter (died 1881)
 * February 1 – Thomas Cole, American painter (died 1848)
 * April 14 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (died 1892)
 * April 30 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer (died 1879)
 * July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter (died 1875)
 * September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (died 1852)
 * date unknown
 * Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (died 1860)
 * Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1850)
 * Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (died 1876)
 * Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (died 1859)
 * probable (born 1801/1804) – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (died 1866)

Deaths

 * January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor (born 1751)
 * February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter (born 1726)
 * March 3 – Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1746)
 * April 7 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1724)
 * May 29 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1750)
 * June 28
 * Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter (born 1718)
 * Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter (born 1747)
 * June 30 – Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican, guillotined in France (born 1751)
 * August 16 – Ralph Earl, American historical and portrait painter (born 1751)
 * September 6 - William Tyler, English sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts (born 1728)
 * October 11 – John Donaldson, Scottish-born miniature painter in enamel and watercolour (born 1737)
 * November 14 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (born 1745)
 * December 2 – William Hamilton, English historical and decorative painter (born 1751)
 * date unknown
 * Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (born 1755)