1796 in art

Events

• Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia.^[1]

Works

Lansdowne portrait

• Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole
• Edward Savage – The Washington Family
• Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington

Births

• February 3 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer (died 1877)
• May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver (died 1882)
• July 2 – Michael Thonet, furniture designer (died 1871)
• July 17 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (died 1875)
• July 26 – George Catlin, American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (died 1872)
• August 21 – Asher Brown Durand, painter of the Hudson River School (died 1886)
• September 4 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer (died 1842)
• September 24 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875)
• October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (died 1878)
• October 24 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864)
• November 4 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (died 1865)
• date unknown
  • Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (died 1863)
  • Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (died 1849)
  • Etienne-Jules Ramey – French sculptor and teacher (died 1852)
  • Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (died 1877)
• probable – John Ternouth, English sculptor (died 1848)

Deaths

• March 9 – Saverio Gandini, Italian painter (born 1729)
• April 2 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist painter (born 1735)
• August 6 – David Allan, painter of historical subjects (born 1744)
• August 8 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (born 1724)
• September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (born 1733)
• November 2 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (born 1745)
• date unknown – John Frederick Miller, illustrator (born 1759)
• probable – Francesco Battaglioli, Italian painter of veduta and cappriccios (born 1722)

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