1789 in art
Events from the year 1789 in art.
Events
- April 27 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1789 opens at Somerset House in London
- May 4 – The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, designed for John Boydell by George Dance the Younger, is opened in London.
- James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque".
- Sir Joshua Reynolds loses the sight of his left eye, which forces him into retirement from painting.
Works
Image:The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar.jpg|thumb|right|300px|John Trumbull – The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789- John Singleton Copley – The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
- Jacques-Louis David – The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Joseph Recognised by His Brothers
- Francisco Goya – Blind Man's Bluff
- Thomas Lawrence
- * Portrait of Queen Charlotte
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of Madame Perregaux
- Joshua Reynolds
- * The Braddyll Family
- * Cupid and Psyche
- * Puck
- Hubert Robert – The Bastille During the First Days of its Demolition
- John Trumbull – The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789
- François-André Vincent – Zeuxis Choosing the Most Beautiful Women from Croton as His Models
- Benjamin West
- * The Burghers of Calais
- * George III Resuming Power
- * ''Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross''
Births
- March 7 – Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits
- April 29 – Karl Ludwig Frommel, German landscape painter and engraver
- June 30 – Horace Vernet, French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects
- July 4 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter
- July 19 – John Martin, English painter and engraver
- July 31 – Jean-Pierre Montagny, French medallist and coiner
- September 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German Romantic painter
- November 12 – William Turner of Oxford, English topographical watercolourist
- November 20 – John Partridge, British artist and portrait painter date unknown
- * Jakob Alt, German landscape painter
- * Jules Robert Auguste, French painter Impressionist movement
- * Giovanni Battista Cassevari, Italian miniature portrait painter,
- * Auguste Hüssener, German engraver and miniature painter
- * Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, Swedish and Russian painter
- * Hans Michelsen, Norwegian sculptor
Deaths
- January 4 – Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish gouache painter best known for his topographic prospects
- May 9 – Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period
- May 15 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter, drawer and administrator
- June 12 – Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter
- August 22 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, member of the Tischbein family of German painters
- December 3 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter date unknown
- Kim Eung-hwan, Korean painter of the late Joseon period
- Jeremiah Meyer, English miniaturist
- Nikola Nešković, Serbian religious painter of icons, frescos, and portraits
- Thomas Parkinson, British portrait painter
- Orazio Solimena, Italian painter