1796 in art
Events from the year 1796 in art.
Events
- Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia.
- Ann Jemima Provis and her father Thomas Provis perpetrate the Venetian secret scandal where they falsely claim to have found a document describing Renaissance-era painting methods. A number of prominent artists are fooled, most notably Benjamin West.
Works
- Henry Fuseli – The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches
- Anton Graff – George Leopold Gogel
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- * Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole
- * Portrait of the Maistre Sisters
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton – Lord Edward Fitzgerald
- John Hoppner – Portrait of William Lamb
- Thomas Lawrence
- * Portrait of the Duke of Leeds
- * Portrait of Lord Hawkesbury
- * The Children of John Julius Angerstein
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- Henry Raeburn – Rev. Alexander Carlyle
- Edward Savage – The Washington Family
- Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
- J. M. W. Turner – Fishermen at Sea
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - ''Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt''
Births
- February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer
- February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer
- May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher
- May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver
- June 27 – George Vincent, English landscape painter of the Norwich School
- June 30 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor
- July 2 – Michael Thonet, German-born furniture designer
- July 3 – Maria Martin, American watercolor painter
- July 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter
- July 26 – George Catlin, American painter specializing in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West
- August 21 – Asher Brown Durand, American painter of the Hudson River School
- August 30 – Julien-Léopold Boilly, French draughtsman and watercolorist
- September 4 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver and lithographer
- September 5 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher
- September 24 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor
- October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator
- October 19 – Carl Wagner, German romantic landscape painter
- October 24 – David Roberts, Scottish painter
- October 30 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman
- November 4 – John Neagle, American portrait painter date unknown
- * Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter
- * Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman
- * Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, Italian engraver
- * Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter
- * Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter probable – John Ternouth, English sculptor
Deaths
- March 9 – Saverio Gandini, Italian painter
- March 29 – Johan Philip Korn, Swedish painter
- April 2 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist painter
- August 6 – David Allan, Scottish painter of historical subjects
- August 8 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter
- September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome
- November 2 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter
- November 12 – Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter
- December 29 – Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor date unknown
- * Walter Beekerk, Dutch painter
- * John Frederick Miller, English illustrator
- * Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter probable – Francesco Battaglioli, Italian painter of veduta and capriccios