1807 in art

Events in the year 1807 in art.

Events

 * Napoleon Bonaparte purchases the Borghese art collection, including a 2nd century bust, the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris, where in 1808 it is placed at the Louvre.
 * William Thomas Beckford moves into Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection, even though construction has not finished.

Works

 * William Blake – illustrations of Paradise Lost
 * Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon
 * Arthur William Devis – The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
 * Caspar David Friedrich
 * Cairn in Snow
 * Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)
 * Daniel Turner – Nelson's Funeral Procession on the Thames, 9 January 1806
 * J. M. W. Turner – Sun Rising Through Vapour, Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish
 * Horace Vernet - Napoleon at the Battle of Friedland
 * Hendrik Voogd – Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines
 * David Wilkie – Rent Day

Births

 * February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (died 1870)
 * September 10 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter (died 1862)
 * September 22 – Ulisse Cambi, Italian sculptor (died 1895)
 * October 5 – Constant Dutilleux, French illustrator and engraver (died 1865)
 * date unknown – Jean Achard, French painter (died 1884)

Deaths

 * February 9 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (born 1743)
 * March 8 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (born 1733)
 * April 2 – Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (born 1746)
 * April 6 – John Opie, English historical and portrait painter (born 1761)
 * April 28 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, German-born landscape painter (born 1737)
 * July 28 – Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (born 1760)
 * September 18 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (born 1745)
 * November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (born 1741)
 * December 6 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter (born 1737)
 * date unknown
 * Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer (born 1741)
 * Nathaniel Grogan, Irish painter from Cork (born 1740)