1800 in art
The year 1800 in art is often estimated to be the beginning of the change from the Neoclassicism movement, that was based on Roman art, to the Romantic movement, which encouraged emotional art and ended around 1850.
Events
- May 31 – The National Art Gallery, precursor of the Rijksmuseum, opens in Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, Batavian Republic.
- September 2 – The Salon of 1800 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- François-André Vincent marries fellow-painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.
Works
- William Beechey – Portrait of George III
- Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Madame Récamier
- Heinrich Füger – portraits of Lord Nelson
- Francisco Goya – La Maja desnuda
- John Hoppner – Portrait of Lord Grenville
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- *The Battle of the Nile
- * A Fishing Boat Brought Ashore near Conway Castle
- John Opie – Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida
- Henry Raeburn –
- Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of the Duke of Clarence
- Henry Singleton – The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun
- George Stubbs – Hambletonian Rubbing Down
- Benjamin West – ''Joshua Passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant''
Births
- January 12 – Eugène Lami, French painter and lithographer
- February 1 – Thomas Cole, English-born American landscape painter
- February 6 – Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer
- February 9 – Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter
- February 22 – Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, English francophile art collector
- March 10 – Thomas Webster, English genre painter
- May 26 – Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny
- June 9 – James Wilson Carmichael, English marine painter
- July 2 – Piotr Michałowski, Polish portrait painter
- July 11 – Charles Lees, Scottish portrait painter
- August 10 – George Cattermole, English illustrator and watercolourist
- October 14 – John Hogan, Irish sculptor
- November 20 – Richard Rothwell, Irish portrait and genre painter
- date unknown
- *Auguste-Joseph Carrier, French miniature painter
- *Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter
- probable
- *Charles Codman, landscape painter of Portland, Maine
- *Achille Leonardi, Italian artist
Deaths
- May 21 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect
- October 25 – Thomas Macklin, art dealer
- December – Jean-Baptiste Audebert, naturalist and artist
- December 5 – Carlo Frigerio, painter
- date unknown
- *Manuel Acevedo, Spanish painter
- *John Clayton, painter
- *Francisco Agustín y Grande, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style
- *François-Nicolas Martinet, engraver and naturalist
- *Louis Rolland Trinquesse, painter
- *Henry Wigstead, painter and caricaturist
- probable – Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre, French artist