1802 in art

List of years in Art

Events in the year 1802 in Art.

Events

 * The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.
 * Antonio Canova models the bust of Napoleon later used for his statue Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker.
 * Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.

Works

 * John Constable – Dedham Vale
 * Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Battle of Alexandria
 * François Fleury-Richard – Valentine of Milan weeping for the death of her husband Louis of Orléans
 * François Gérard – Madame Récamier
 * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Apotheosis of French Heroes Who Died for the Fatherland during the War of Liberation
 * Christian Gottlieb Schick – Portrait of Wilhelmine Cotta (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
 * Manuel Tolsá – Equestrian statue of Charles IV (Mexico City)
 * John Trumbull – Self-portrait (Yale University Art Gallery)
 * Utamaro – Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (print series)
 * Rafail's Cross (woodcarving, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria)

Births

 * May 20 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
 * June 17 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
 * August 26 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
 * December 25 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter (died 1828)
 * Undated
 * Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (died 1871)
 * Henry Room, English portrait painter (died 1850)

Deaths

 * April 27 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (born 1730)
 * June 20 – Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter (born 1734)
 * September 12 – Philip Jean, Jersey-born miniaturist painter (born 1755)
 * September 30 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor (born 1753)
 * October 16 – Joseph Strutt, English engraver and antiquary (born 1749)
 * October 24 – John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (born 1748)
 * November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (born 1775)
 * November 15 – George Romney, English painter (born 1734)
 * December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (born 1760)
 * December 17 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish sculptor (born 1731)
 * December 27 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (born 1745)
 * date unknown
 * Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (born 1727)
 * James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (born 1730)
 * Giuseppe Canale, Italian painter and engraver (born 1725)
 * Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (born 1735)