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1788 in art
List of years in art
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Table
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1778
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1779
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1780
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1781
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1782
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1783
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1784
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1789
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1790
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1791
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1792
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1793
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1794
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1795
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1796
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1797
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1798
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1789
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1790
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1791
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1790s
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1800s
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Contents
1
Events
2
Works
3
Births
4
Deaths
Events
Étienne Maurice Falconet
becomes director of the
Académie des beaux-arts
.
Works
Births
December 30
-
Edouard Pingret
, French painter and lithographer (d.
1875
)
Johan Christian Dahl
-
Norwegian
landscape painter
(d.
1857
)
John Watson Gordon
- painter (d.
1864
)
Franz Pforr
- painter (d.
1812
)
Felix Slade
- founder of the
Slade School of Art
(d.
1868
)
Pierre Jean David
- sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (d.
1856
)
Charles de Steuben
-
French
painter
active during the
Napoleonic Era
(d.
1856
)
Michele Bisi
-
Italian
engraver and painter (d.
unknown
)
Deaths
July 15
-
Jean Germain Drouais
, French historical painter (b.
1763
)
August 2
-
Thomas Gainsborough
, English portrait painter (b.
1727
)
December 30
-
Francesco Zuccarelli
, Italian
Rococo
painter, elected in
1763
to the
Venetian Academy
of Fine Arts (b.
1702
)
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
-
French
Rococo
portraitist
who worked primarily with
pastels
(b.
1704
)
Min Zhen
- Chinese painter and seal carver born in
Nanchang
in
Jiangxi
(b.
1730
)
Toriyama Sekien
- scholar and
ukiyo-e
artist of
Japanese folklore
(b.
1712
)
Matthäus Günther
- German
painter
and
artist
of the
Baroque
and
Rococo
era (b.
1705
)
Solomon Gessner
-
Swiss
painter
and
poet
(b.
1730
)
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