1806 in art

• 18 January – The British Institution opens the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, as the "British Gallery",{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Thomas|title=Recollections of the British Institution, for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom|publisher=Simpkin & Marshall and Edward Stanford|location=London|year=1860|url=https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofb00smit|quote=British Institution Benjamin West.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofb00smit/page/1 1]–12}} alternating the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists.
• 5 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1806 opens at Somerset House in London

File:Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial throne.jpg, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris]]

• Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Card Sharp on the Boulevard
• Antonio Canova – Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (bronze nude)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Charles-Marie Bonaparte
• John Hoppner – [http://www.nationaltrustimages.org.uk/image/25788 Sleeping Venus and Cupid]
• Jean-Antoine Houdon – [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/h/houdon/napoleon.html Portrait bust of Napoleon]
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20080925033434/http://www.rouen-musees.com/Musee-des-Beaux-Arts/Les-collections/Portraits-La-Belle-Zelie-115.htm La Belle Zélie]}}
• Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
• Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
• Thomas Lawrence
• [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lawrence-lady-georgiana-fane-n00922 Lady Georgiana Fane] (approximate date)
• Portrait of Lord Westmoreland
• John Opie – Portrait of Robert Southey
• Henry Raeburn – [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/henry-raeburn/portrait-of-lord-newton Lord Newton] (approximate date)
• Philipp Otto Runge – The Hülsenbeck Children
• Joseph Karl Stieler – Self-portrait
• J.M.W. Turner
• The Thames at Weybridge
• Walton Bridges
• Benjamin West
• The Death of Nelson
• Portrait of Robert Fulton
• Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles (second version)
• David Wilkie
• The Blind Fiddler
• [http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_154485/Sir-David-Wilkie/King-Alfred-burning-the-cakes%2C-1806 King Alfred burning the cakes]

• 10 January – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
• 13 January – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)
• 25 January – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1870)
• 1 February – George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
• 22 February – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
• 8 March – Antonio María Esquivel, Spanish Romantic painter (died 1857)Arte Español: Journal of the "Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte" [https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artespSEAA/artespSEAA_a1959v42t22n2.pdf] Estudio y catálogo de la obra de Esquivel, by Bernardino de Pantorba (1959)
• 12 April – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
• 2 May – Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
• 4 June – Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
• 11 June – James Ballantine, Scottish painter and author (died 1877)
• 28 July – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
• 19 September – William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
• 24 September – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
• October (10 or 12) – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)

• 6 January – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
• 22 February – James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)
• 17 March – Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)
• April – John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)
• 8 April – Robert Barker, itinerant portrait painter (born 1739){{cite IrishBio|wstitle=Barker, Robert }}
• 26 April – Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
• 5 June – Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)
• 3 July – Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)[http://www.fondazionecarifano.it/Quadreria/CarloMagini/QuadreriaMaginiBattistini.htm Rodolfo Battistini, La Quadreria – Carlo Magini, La vita] at Fondazione Carifano {{in lang|it}}, accessed 3 May 2018
• 10 July – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
• 22 August – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)
• 23 August – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
• 9 October – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
• 10 October – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
• 22 October – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
• 31 October – Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
• date unknown
• Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)
• Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer (born 1748/1749) (drowned)
• Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1741)
• probable – Danwon, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1745)

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