1799 in art
Events from the year 1799 in art.
Events
- March 19 – Sculptor Jean-Jacques Castex leaves Cairo for Upper Egypt in the group led by Pierre Girard. He returns from the expedition with many drawings.
- James Barry becomes the first and only member to be expelled from the British Royal Society of Arts, soon after the appearance of his belligerent Letter to the Dilettanti Society.
- Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first depressive interlude.
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes publishes Éléments de perspective pratique: à l'usage des artistes, suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture, et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage.
Works
Image:Goya - Caprichos.jpg|thumb|250px|Francisco Goya, Ya van desplumados, print 20 in Los Caprichos- Lemuel Francis Abbott – Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
- William Beechey – Portrait of John Philip Kemble
- John Singleton Copley – The Battle of Camperdown
- Jacques-Louis David – The Intervention of the Sabine Women
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Mademoiselle Lange as Danaë
- Francisco Goya
- * Los Caprichos
- * Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – The Return of Marcus Sextus
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- * The Battle of Camperdown
- * A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On
- Ramsay Richard Reinagle – Portrait of John Constable
- J. M. W. Turner – Norham Castle
- Johann Zoffany – ''Dido and Lady Elizabeth Murray''
Births
- January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter
- January 18 – Valentine Bartholomew, English flower painter
- January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss caricaturist
- February 14 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter
- February 27 – Frederick Catherwood, English artist and architect
- March 30 – Berndt Godenhjelm, Finnish painter
- May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter
- June 10 – Fyodor Bruni, Russian painter of Italian descent
- August 12 – Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast
- September 20 – Edward Calvert, English printmaker and painter
- October 30 – Emil Bærentzen, Danish portrait painter and lithographer
- December 12 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter who transitioned from the Russian Neoclassicism to Romanticism date unknown
- * Henri Decaisne, Belgian historical and portrait painter
- * Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher
- * William Simson, Scottish-born painter
Deaths
- February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver
- February 9 – Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor
- February 14 – Luis Paret y Alcázar – Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period
- March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor
- June 1 – James Tassie, Scottish engraver
- August 3 – Hendrik Kobell, Dutch landscape and marine painter, etcher, draftsman and watercolorist
- August 4 – John Bacon, English sculptor
- November 30 – Guillaume Voiriot, French portrait painter
- December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter and engraver
- December 9 – Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Italian sculptor
- December 14 – Johann Balzer, Czech etcher and engraver date unknown
- * William Baillie, British artist working in India
- * Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter
- * Jacques-Louis Copia, French engraver
- * Luo Ping, Chinese Qing dynasty painter, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
- * Marten Waefelaerts, Flemish landscape painter