Events

Works

• William Beechey George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops
• Fran ois G rard Cupid and Psyche
• Antoine-Jean Gros Le pont d'Arcole
• Thomas Whitcombe The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797

Births

• February 17 Josef Navr til, Bohemian painter of paintings, murals, and frescos (died 1865)
• April 26 Eug ne Delacroix, Romantic painter (died 1863)
• June 22 Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter (died 1854)
• July 16 Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (died 1879)
• July 29 Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (died 1840)
• October 13 Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (died 1868)
• October 24 Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (died 1866)
• date unknown
  • James Eights, scientist and watercolour painter (died 1882)
  • James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (died 1863)
  • Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (died 1864)
  • Henry O'Neill, Irish artist and archaeologist (died 1880)

Deaths

• January 4 Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (born 1723)
• May 25 Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
• October 30 Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter (born 1745)
• date unknown
  • Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (born c. 1737)
  • Richard Newton, caricaturist (born 1777)
  • Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor (born 1726)
  • Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter (b. unknown)
  • Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (born 1740)

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