1803 in art
Events in the year 1803 in Art.
Events
- 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1803 opens at Somerset House in London
- Summer – The Stafford Gallery at Cleveland House, London, the private art collection of the Marquess of Stafford's family, is first opened to the public.
Works
- James Barry – Self-portrait as Timanthes
- William Beechey – Portrait of Henry Addington
- Louis-Léopold Boilly
- *The Arrival of a Stagecoach in the Courtyard of the Messageries
- *Jean-Antoine Houdon modeling the bust of Laplace in his atelier
- Adam Buck – Mary Anne Clarke
- John Sell Cotman – watercolours
- *Bedlam Furnace Near Irongate, Shropshire
- *Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey
- François Gérard
- * Portrait of Letizia Bonaparte
- * Portrait of Mary Nisbet
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – An Avalanche in the Alps
- Henry Fuseli – The Blind Polyphemus, at the Entrance to His Cave, Strokes the Ram under which Odysseus Lies Concealed
- François Gérard – Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Thurlow
- Thomas Douglas Guest – Portrait of Joseph Wilton
- Christian Horneman – Portrait miniature of Ludwig van Beethoven
- William Turner
- * Bonneville, Savoy
- * Calais Pier
- * The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon
- * Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour
- Utamaro – Sakizoroi shintaku no kachan
- David Wilkie – ''Diana and Callisto''
Awards
The Prix de Rome is expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category.- Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: Albert Androt.
Births
- January 18 – Francis Grant, painter
- March 3 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter
- May 19 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter
- June 13 – Treffle Berthlaume, sculptor
- July 24 – Alexander Jackson Davis, architect, illustrator
- August 23 – Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter
- September 13 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, caricaturist
- September 28 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher
- October 3 – Paul Huet, painter
- November 25 – Sofia Ahlbom, Swedish drawing artist, engraver and lithographer
Deaths
- January 8 – Domenico Cunego, Italian printmaker
- January 22 – Giuseppe Baldrighi, Italian painter
- April 21 – John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter
- April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, historical and portrait painter
- April 29 – Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of water colours and sketches
- June 14 – José Camarón Bonanat, Spanish painter, mainly active in Valencia
- July 8 – Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova
- November 25 – Joseph Wilton, sculptor
- December 6 – William Verstille, American portrait artist date unknown
- * Giuseppe Camerata, Italian miniature painter and engraver
- * Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter
- * Vasily Rodchev, Russian history painter
- * Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines
- * Xi Gang, Chinese calligrapher and painter of the Qing dynasty