1807 in art

Events

• Napoleon Bonaparte purchases the Borghese art collection, including a 2nd century bust, the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris, where in 1808 it is placed at the Louvre.
• William Thomas Beckford moves into Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection, even though construction has not finished.

Works

• William Blake – illustrations of Paradise Lost
• Louis-Léopold Boilly
• * A Game of Billiards
• * The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grande Armée
• John Constable – Bow Fell, Cumberland
• Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon
• Arthur William Devis – The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
• Caspar David Friedrich
• *Cairn in Snow
• *Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar)
• Angelica Kauffman – Portrait of Ludwig, Crown Prince of Bavaria
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of William Pitt
• Thomas Phillips – Portrait of William Blake
• Nicholas Pocock – Nelson's Flagships at Anchor
• Daniel Turner –
• J. M. W. Turner
• * A Country Blacksmith
• * The Junction of the Thames and the Medway
• * Linlithgow Palace
• * Newark Abbey
• * Sun Rising through Vapour
• * Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour
• John Vanderlyn – Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage
• Hendrik Voogd – Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines
• David Wilkie – ''Rent Day''

Births

• February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter
• September 10 – Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter
• September 22 – Ulisse Cambi, Italian sculptor
• October 5 – Constant Dutilleux, French illustrator and engraver
• date unknown – Jean Achard, French painter

Deaths

• February 9 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter
• March 8 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals
• April 2 – Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher
• April 6 – John Opie, English historical and portrait painter
• April 28 – Jacob Philipp Hackert, German-born landscape painter
• July 28 – Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist
• September 18 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter
• November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter
• December 6 – Niclas Lafrensen, Swedish genre and miniature painter date unknown
• * Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer
• * Nathaniel Grogan, Irish painter from Cork