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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)