1793 in art
Events from the year 1793 in art.
Events
- April 29 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1793 opens at Somerset House in London
- August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings.
- Henry Fuseli begins to paints scenes from Paradise Lost.
- Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising.
Works
Image:Death of Marat by David.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat- William Beechey
- * Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy
- * Sarah Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy
- William Blake – For Children: The Gates of Paradise
- Mather Brown – Louis XVI Saying Farewell to His Family
- Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
- Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat
- Francisco Goya –
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – The Death of Brutus
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Shipwreck
- John Opie – Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
- François Marie Suzanne – terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin
- John Trumbull – Portrait of John Adams
- Utamaro – ''Three Beauties of the Present Day''
Births
- January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer
- February 13 – Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter
- June 1 - Augustus Earle, English artist
- June 3 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer
- July 19 – Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter
- August 3 – Jacques-Jean Barre, French engraver and designer of French medals, the Great Seal of France, bank notes and postage stamps
- October 11 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland
- November 3 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter
- November 5 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer
- November 16 – Francis Danby, Irish landscape painter from the south of Ireland
- November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector
- November 25 – Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America
- December 3 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter
- December 7 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter date unknown
- * Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter
- * Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, English portrait painter
- * Erin Corr, Irish engraver
- * Angelus de Baets, Belgian painter of portraits and architectural subjects
- * Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher and devout Confucian scholar
- * Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subject painter
- * Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort, French artist painting in oil and watercolours
- * Václav Mánes, Czech painter
- * Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist
- * Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor
- * Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor
- * Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman
Deaths
- January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta
- March 2 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born painter
- May 15 - Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to miniature painting
- May 29 – John Webber, English landscape artist
- July 5
- * Alexander Roslin, Swedish portrait painter
- * Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect
- September 9 – Peter Perez Burdett, English draughtsman
- October 5 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement Illustrious Absolutism
- November – Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes
- November 7 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter
- November 20 – Teodor Ilić Češljar, Serbian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo period of Vojvodina
- December 13 – Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter date unknown
- * Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter
- * Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist
- * Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor
- * Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter
- * Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver
- * Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period
- * Dominic Serres "the Elder", French-born marine painter
- * Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter