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.
- April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.[1]
- The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.[2]
- The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.[3]
- Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
Works
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – Departure of the Conscripts
- Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude)[4]
- Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
- François-Xavier Fabre – The Judgement of Paris
- François Gérard
- James Gillray – The Spanish Bullfight
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
- Antoine-Jean Gros – Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
- Adolphe Roehn – The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit[8]
- J. M. W. Turner – View of Richmond Hill and Bridge[9]
Publications
- Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste.
- Robert Blair – The Grave, with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including A Vision of the Last Judgment).
- 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 (died 1885)
- February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)[10]
- March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862)
- July 12 – Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter (died 1874)
- December 14 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter (died 1882)
- Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)
Deaths
- February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740)
- March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738)[11]
- March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733)
- April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743)
- April 15 – Hubert Robert, French painter (born 1733)
- April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728)
- June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761)
- June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737)[12]
- December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
- December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)[13]
- December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)[14]
References
- ^ Henderson County, Kentucky Biography of Audubon. Accessed 9 April 2015
- ^ William Sandby (1862). The History of the Royal Academy of Arts from Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time. Longman, Roberts, & Green. p. 64.
- ^ "The beginning". History of the Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ Catharine Edwards, ed. (1999). Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780521591973.
- ^ Wakefield, David (1978). "Chateaubriand's 'Atala' as a Source of Inspiration in Nineteenth-Century Art". The Burlington Magazine. 120 (898): 13–24. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 879073.
- ^ Cumming, Robert (2008). Art. Dorling Kindersley. p. 264.
- ^ "1806–1824 - Rome and Florence". Louvre. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ^ Michel Franceschi; Ben Weider (2008). Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars. Savas Beatie. p. 132.
- ^ "View of Richmond Hill and Bridge". Tate. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Daumier, Honoré". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 849.
- ^ "Düben, Fredrika Eleonora von". Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor. 1864. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Dyveke Helsted. "Magdalene Margrethe Bärens". Kvindebiografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ "Chalon, Christina (1749-1808)". Het Biografisch Portaal. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
