1807 in art
Events in the year 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