1802 in art

Events

• May 3 – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1802 opens at Somerset House in London
• September 2 – The Salon of 1802 opens at the Louvre in Paris. Due to the Treaty of Amiens, British visitors are able to visit the exhibition for the first time in a decade
• The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.
• Antonio Canova models the bust of Napoleon later used for his statue Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker.
• Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.

Works

• John Constable – Dedham Vale
• Philip James de Loutherbourg
• * The Battle of Alexandria
• * The Capture of the Chevrette
• * The Landing of British Troops at Aboukir
• François Fleury-Richard – Valentine of Milan Mourning Her Husband the Duke of Orléans
• François Gérard – Madame Récamier
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Apotheosis of French Heroes Who Died for the Fatherland during the War of Liberation
• Christian Gottlieb Schick – Portrait of Wilhelmine Cotta
• Manuel Tolsá – Equestrian statue of Charles IV
• J.M.W. Turner
• * Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland
• * Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather
• * Jason
• * Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage
• John Trumbull – Self-Portrait
• Utamaro – Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy
• Rafail's Cross

Births

• May 20 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer
• June 17 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer
• August 26 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor
• December 25 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter
• Undated
• *Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist
• *Henry Room, English portrait painter

Deaths

• April 27 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter
• June 20 – Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter
• September 12 – Philip Jean, Jersey-born miniaturist painter
• September 30 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor
• October 16 – Joseph Strutt, English engraver and antiquary
• October 24 – John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist
• November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher
• November 15 – George Romney, English painter
• December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter
• December 17 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish sculptor
• December 27 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter date unknown
• * Ivan Argunov, Russian painter
• * James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake
• * Giuseppe Canale, Italian painter and engraver
• * Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes