1783 in art
Events from the year 1783 in art.
Events
- 28 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1783 opens at Somerset House in London
- Thomas Gainsborough removes a set of 15 portraits of King George III of Great Britain and the royal family from the Royal Academy summer exhibition in London and places them at Schomberg House, his home.
Works
- Marie-Gabrielle Capet – Self-portrait
- John Singleton Copley
- * The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781
- * The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
- * Portrait of Lord Mansfield
- Henry Fuseli – Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma
- Thomas Gainsborough
- * Portrait of Admiral Rodney
- * Portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire
- * Portrait of Lord Cornwallis
- * Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich
- * The Mall in St. James's Park
- Thomas Jones – A Storm – Prospero, Miranda and Caliban Spying the Shipwrecked Ferdinand
- Joseph Lange – Unfinished portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his brother-in-law
- Jean-Baptiste Le Paon - Lafayette at Yorktown
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – A Cottage in Patterdale, Westmoreland
- Joshua Reynolds
- * Admiral Hood
- * The Nativity
- Alexander Roslin – The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster
- Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of William Woollett
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes – At the Villa Farnèse – Two Poplars
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- * Portrait of Marie Antoinette
- * Marie Antoinette with a Rose
- Francis Wheatley – The Salmon Leap, Leixlip
- Thomas Whitcombe – The Battle of the Saintes, 12th April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris
Births
- January 2 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter
- January 4 – Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter
- February 10 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist
- March 25 – Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter
- April 5 – Andrew Geddes, British painter
- April 29 – David Cox, English landscape painter
- May 29 – Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian-born British engraver
- June 19 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter
- September 17 – Samuel Prout, English water-colour painter
- October 4 – Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter
- December 14 – Alexandre-François Caminade, French portraitist and a religion painter
- December 18 – Johan Niclas Byström, Swedish sculptor date unknown
- * Maria Johanna Görtz, Swedish still life artist
- * Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter
- * Yi Jaegwan, Korean genre works painter in the late Joseon period
Deaths
- January 24 – George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller
- March 2 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor
- March 26 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter
- April 12 – Johann Melchior Kambly, Swiss sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo
- April 14 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver
- May 26 – Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish portrait miniaturist artist
- July 8 – Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian fresco painter
- August 4 – Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman
- August 19 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German sculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions
- August 29 – William Wynne Ryland, English engraver
- November 19 – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels date unknown
- * Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter
- * Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique
- * Jean-Baptiste Defernex, French sculptor especially of portrait busts
- * Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter