1801 in art
Events in the year 1801 in Art.
Events
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