1801 in art

Events

• 27 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1801 opens at Somerset House in London

Works

• Fyodor Alekseyev – Red Square in Moscow
• William Beechey – Portrait of Horatio Nelson
• Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos
• John Constable – Old Hall, East Bergholt
• Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon Crossing the Alps
• John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford
• François Gérard – Portrait of Empress Josephine
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes
• Francisco Goya
• *Charles IV of Spain and His Family
• *Portrait of Manuel Godoy
• Thomas Lawrence
• * John Philip Kemble as Hamlet
• *Portrait of Caroline, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte
• Robert Lefèvre – Portrait of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
• Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Marengo
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night
• Constance Mayer - Self-Portrait of the Artist with her Father
• Rembrandt Peale – Rubens Peale with a Geranium
• J. M. W. Turner – Dutch Boats in a Gale
• Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing
• Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, England

Births

• January 4 – James Giles, Scottish landscape painter
• January 26 – John Quidor, American painter
• February 1 – Thomas Cole, American painter
• April 14 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian
• April 30 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer
• July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter
• September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts
• date unknown
• *Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner
• *Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty
• *Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist
• *Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter
• probable – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist

Deaths

• January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor
• February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter
• March 3 – Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver
• April 7 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver
• May 29 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter
• June 28
• * Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter
• * Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter
• June 30 – Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican, guillotined in France
• August 16 – Ralph Earl, American historical and portrait painter
• September 6 - William Tyler, English sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts
• October 11 – John Donaldson, Scottish-born miniature painter in enamel and watercolour
• November 14 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter
• December 2 – William Hamilton, English historical and decorative painter date unknown
• *Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor