1797 in art
Events from the year 1797 in art.
Events
- Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans established in France.
Works
- Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Temple in Ruins
- François Gérard – Belisarius
- Francisco Goya – Bernardo de Iriarte
- Anton Graff – Elisa von der Recke
- Henry Howard – Anne Flaxman
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Great Fire of London
- Henry Tresham – ''The Earl of Warwick's Vow Previous to The Battle of Towton''
Births
- January 19 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter
- April 5 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre art
- May 29 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman
- June 13 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver
- July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist
- June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter
- July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter
- August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter
- August 20 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer
- September 5 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer
- September 13 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school
- September 19 – Jan Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer
- September 25 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter
- October 9 – Henry Collen, English Royal miniature portrait painter
- October 29 – Friedrich Loos, Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer date unknown
- * Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter
- * Tommaso Benedetti, English-born Austrian painter
- * Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver
- * Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits
- * Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist
- * Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design
- * Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer
- * Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter probable
- * John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter
- * Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school
Deaths
- February 12 – Pierre-François Basan, French engraver
- March 6 – William Hodges, English landscape painter
- March 30 – Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter
- April 4– Pierre-François Berruer, French sculptor
- June 23 – Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes and vistas
- July 18 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter
- August 18 – Josiah Spode, English potter
- August 29 – Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter
- September 29 - George Raper, English nature artist
- December 14 – John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes date unknown
- * Manuel Francisco Álvarez de la Peña, Spanish sculptor
- * Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter
- * Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver
- * Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter
- * Thomas Kirk, English painter, illustrator and engraver