1801 in art explained

Events in the year 1801 in Art.

Works

Fyodor Alekseyev – Red Square in Moscow
William Beechey – Portrait of Horatio Nelson
Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos
Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon Crossing the Alps (first version)
John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford
François Gérard – Portrait of Empress Josephine
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté) (approx. date)
Francisco Goya
- Charles IV of Spain and His Family
- Portrait of Manuel Godoy
Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Caroline, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte
Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night
Constance Mayer - Self-Portrait of the Artist with her Father
Rembrandt Peale – Rubens Peale with a Geranium
J. M. W. Turner – Dutch Boats in a Gale (the Bridgewater Sea Piece)
Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing
Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, England

January 4 – James Giles, Scottish landscape painter (died 1870)
January 26 – John Quidor, American painter (died 1881)
February 1 – Thomas Cole, American painter (died 1848)
April 14 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (died 1892)
April 30 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer (died 1879)
July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter (died 1875)
September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (died 1852)
date unknown
- Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (died 1860)
- Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1850)
- Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (died 1876)
- Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (died 1859)
probable (born 1801/1804) – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (died 1866)

January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor (born 1751)
February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter (born 1726)^[1]
March 3 – Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1746)
April 7 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1724)
May 29 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1750)
June 28
- Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter (born 1718)
- Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter (born 1747)
June 30 – Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican, guillotined in France (born 1751)
August 16 – Ralph Earl, American historical and portrait painter (born 1751)
September 6 - William Tyler, English sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts (born 1728)
October 11 – John Donaldson, Scottish-born miniature painter in enamel and watercolour (born 1737)
November 14 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (born 1745)
December 2 – William Hamilton, English historical and decorative painter (born 1751)
date unknown
- Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (born 1755)

Book: Sieveking, Hinrich . Fuseli to Menzel : drawings and watercolors in the age of Goethe from a German private collection . Prestel . Munich New York . 1998 . 9783791319292 . 204.