1808 in art
Events in the year 1808 in Art.
Events
- May 2 and May 3 – In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808.
- May 2 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1808 opens at Somerset House in London
- April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.
- October 15 – The Salon of 1808 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- The Academy of [Fine Arts, Munich], is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.
- The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.
- Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
Works
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – Departure of the Conscripts
- Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix
- Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
- François-Xavier Fabre – The Judgement of Paris
- François Gérard
- * Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte
- * Portrait of Talleyrand
- James Gillray – The Spanish Bullfight
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
- * The Burial of Atala
- * Napoleon Receiving the Keys of Vienna
- * François-René de Chateaubriand
- * Hortense de Beauharnais
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- * General Lasalle at the Siege of Stettin
- * Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- * The Valpinçon Bather
- * Oedipus and the Sphinx
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
- Thomas Phillips – Venus and Adonis
- Adolphe Roehn – The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit
- J. M. W. Turner
- * Margate
- * Pope's Villa at Twickenham
- * The Forest of Bere
- * Sheerness as Seen from the Nore
- * The Unpaid Bill
- * ''View of Richmond Hill and Bridge''
Publications
- Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste.
- Robert Blair – The Grave, with illustrations from designs by William Blake.
- Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson – Volume 1 of The Microcosm of London, illustrated in aquatint from watercolours produced jointly by Pugin & Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London.
Births
- February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter
- February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator
- March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter
- July 12 – Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter
- December 14 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter
- Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters
Deaths
- February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist
- March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Swedish Academy of Arts">Sweden">Swedish Academy of Arts
- March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome
- April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist
- April 15 – Hubert Robert, French painter
- April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver
- June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer
- June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter
- December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic
- December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher
- December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter