1787 in art
Events from the year 1787 in art.
Events
- 25 August – The Salon of 1787 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Works
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- Antonio Canova – Tomb of Pope Clement XIV
- Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Socrates
- Thomas Gainsborough
- * Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- * Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Francisco Goya
- * Highwaymen Attacking a Coach
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- William Hodges – The Ghauts at Benares
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette and her Children
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Snowdon from Capel Curig
- John Opie – The Murder of Rizzio
- George Romney –
- Jean-Joseph Taillasson – Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia
- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein – Goethe in the Campagna
- Benjamin West – ''The Institution of the Order of the Garter''
Awards
*Births
- January 7 – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter
- February 3 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller
- March 10 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes
- April 9 – William Finden, English line engraver
- August 17 – Maxim Vorobiev, Russian Romantic landscape painter
- August 20 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor
- September 11 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter
- September 18 – Johann David Passavant, German painter, curator and artist
- October 2 – Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter
- October 13 – William Brockedon, English painter
- November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography
- November 22 – Copley Fielding, English watercolour landscape painter
- December 16 – François Joseph Heim, French painter date unknown
- * Heinrich Adam, German painter
- * Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes
- * Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes
- * Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher
- * François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter
- * Xavier Sigalon, French Romantic painter
Deaths
- February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter
- March 17 – Anton August Beck, German engraver
- June 23 – Pierre L'Enfant, French painter
- July 25 – Arthur Devis – English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits
- September 5 – John Brown, Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh
- November 10 – Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Italian painter and engraver
- December 12 – Jean Valade, French painter date unknown
- * Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter
- * John Cheere, English sculptor
- * Nicolas Desportes, French painter of hunting scenes
- * Erik Westzynthius the Younger, Finnish painter
- * Francesco Zugno, Italian Rococo painter probable - Thomas Engleheart, English sculptor and modeller in wax