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

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