1798 in art

Events

• English painter Robert Smirke begins to produce The Seven Ages of Man series for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.

Works

• William Beechey
• * George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing Troops
• * Portrait of Thomas Hope
• * Portrait of George, Prince of Wales
• Louis-Léopold Boilly – Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio
• John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Henry Addington
• François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Jean-Baptiste Belley
• Francisco Goya
• *Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
• * Witches' Sabbath
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Caroline, Princess of Wales
• * John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus
• John Opie – Portrait of Amelia Opie
• J.M.W. Turner – Dunstanburgh Castle
• Thomas Whitcombe – ''The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797''

Births

• January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture
• January 9 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor
• February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals and frescos
• March – David Hay, Scottish-born interior decorator
• March 12 – Elizabeth Goodridge, American painter specializing in miniatures
• April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter
• June 22 – Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter
• July 16 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor
• July 29 – Carl Blechen, German painter specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures
• September 28 – Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer
• October 13 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor
• October 24 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter
• November 29 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher and architect
• December 8 – Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor date unknown
• * John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes
• * Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects
• * Konstantin Danil, Serbian painter
• * William Egley, English miniature painter
• * James Eights, American scientist and watercolour painter
• * Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter
• * James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter
• * Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin
• * Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and archaeologist
• * Robert Seymour, English illustrator
• * Rafael Stupin, Russian painter
• * Henry Bryan Ziegler, British landscape and portrait painter

Deaths

• January 4 – Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter
• January 25 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period
• February 9 – Antoine de Favray, French-born portrait painter
• May 25 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German
• May 27 – Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist
• August 28 – Charles Catton, English painter
• October 30 – Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter
• December 8 – Richard Newton, English caricaturist, of typhus date unknown
• * Giuseppe Angeli, Venetian painter of the late-baroque
• * Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor
• * Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor
• * Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter
• * Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver