1787 in art
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Events from the year 1787 in art.
Events
- 25 August – The Salon of 1787 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Works
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- William Beechey – Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind
- Antonio Canova – Tomb of Pope Clement XIV
- Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Socrates (completed)
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Francisco Goya
- Highwaymen Attacking a Coach
- [http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-snowstorm-winter-1787 The Snowstorm (Winter)]
- [http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-swing-1787 The Swing]
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette and her Children (completed)
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Snowdon from Capel Curig
- George Romney – [http://collection.waddesdon.org.uk/search.do?id=39291&db=object&page=1&view=detail Mrs Jordan as Peggy]
- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein – Goethe in the Campagna
- Benjamin West – The Institution of the Order of the Garter
Awards
- (unknown)
Births
- January 7 – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (died 1831)
- February 3 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (died 1862)
- March 10 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (died 1849)
- April 9 – William Finden, English line engraver (died 1852)
- August 17 – Maxim Vorobiev, Russian Romantic landscape painter (died 1855)
- August 20 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (died 1843)
- September 11 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter (died 1845)
- September 18 – Johann David Passavant, German painter, curator and artist (died 1861)
- October 2 – Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter (died 1878)
- October 13 – William Brockedon, English painter (died 1854)
- November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography (died 1851)
- November 22 – Copley Fielding, English watercolour landscape painter (died 1855)
- December 16 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (died 1865)
- date unknown
- Heinrich Adam, German painter (died 1862)
- Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (died 1869)
- Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (died 1870)
- Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1863)
- François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (died 1869)
- Xavier Sigalon, French Romantic painter (died 1837)
Deaths
- February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (born 1708)
- March 17 – Anton August Beck, German engraver (born 1713)
- June 23 – Pierre L'Enfant, French painter (born 1704)
- July 25 – Arthur Devis – English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (born 1712)
- September 5 – John Brown, Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh (born 1749)
- November 10 – Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Italian painter and engraver (born 1734)
- December 12 – Jean Valade, French painter (born 1710)
- date unknown
- Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (born 1727)
- John Cheere, English sculptor (born 1709)
- Nicolas Desportes, French painter of hunting scenes (born 1718)
- Erik Westzynthius the Younger, Finnish painter (born 1743)
- Francesco Zugno, Italian Rococo painter (born c. 1708)
- probable - Thomas Engleheart, English sculptor and modeller in wax (date of birth unknown)