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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

Works

Jacques-Louis_David, The Death of Socrates, 1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Jacques-Louis David's painting Death of Socrates was completed.
• Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children was completed.
• John Trumbull - Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec.

Awards

• (unknown)

Births

• January 7 - Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (d. 1831)
• Louis Daguerre - French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography (d. 1851)
• William Finden, engraver (d. 1852)
• Jean-Pierre Cortot, sculptor (d. 1843)
• Copley Fielding, painter (d. 1855)
• Heinrich Adam, painter (d. 1862)
• François Joseph Heim, painter (d. 1865)
• François-Joseph Navez - Belgian neo-classical painter (d. 1869)
• Xavier Sigalon - French painter (d. 1837)
• William Etty - English painter, especially of nudes (d. 1849)
• William Brockedon - English painter (d. 1854)
• Johann David Passavant - German painter, curator and artist (d. 1861)
• Karl Wilhelm Wach - German painter (d. 1845)

Deaths

• Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (b. 1708)
• John Brown, Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh (b. 1752)
• Arthur Devis - English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (b. 1712)
• Pierre L'Enfant - French painter (b. 1704)
• Mason Chamberlin - English portrait painter (b. 1727)